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Genus of ray-finned fishes

Variichthys
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Family:	Terapontidae
Genus:	Variichthys Allen, 1993
Type species
Therapon jamoerensis Mees 1971
Species
see text
Synonyms
Varia Allen, 1991

Variichthys is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae from New Guinea and northern Australia. It was formerly known as Varia, but this name is preoccupied by a genus of moth.

Species

The following species are classified within the genus Variichthys:

Variichthys jamoerensis (Mees, 1971) (Jamur Lake grunter)
Variichthys lacustris (Mees & Kailola, 1977) (Lake grunter)

References

^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Variichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
Gerald R. Allen (1993). "Variichthys a replacement name for the Tetrapontid genus Varia and first record of V. lacustris from Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16 (3): 459–460.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). Variichthys "Species in genus 'Variichthys'". FishBase. December 2019 version.

Taxon identifiers
Variichthys	Wikidata: Q10713064 Wikispecies: Variichthys AFD: Variichthys CoL: 647JW EoL: 25692 GBIF: 2374451 iNaturalist: 92775 IRMNG: 1032859 ITIS: 650203 NCBI: 1161384 Open Tree of Life: 113779 WoRMS: 271207

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