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Grunter

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Grunters or tigerperches are fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae).

 


A Silver Grunter caught at Mulgrave River
A Silver Grunter caught at Papua New Guinea
A Silver Spot at Topgallant Island
A Silver Sweep at Bowen Island
A single Sugar Ant
A Singular Bannerfish at Osprey Reef, Coral Sea ...

Includes snooks, Asian seaperches, temperate basses, lanternbellies, wreckfishes, cavebasses, sea basses, groupers, soapfishes, dottybacks, basslets, roundheads, jawfishes, grunters, flagtails, sunfishes, freshwater basses, perches, darters, bigeyes, ...

The Silver Perch (classified by scientists as Bidyanus bidyanus) is also known as the Murray Perch, Grunter, or Black Bream. It is mostly silver in color with yellow fin-tips.

Other Names: Sheephead, Grunter, Silver Bass, Gray Bass
Family Name: Sciaenidae (Drum Family)
Length: normally 12-30 inches ...

See also: Perch, Grunt, Shrimp, Trumpeter, Wrasse