Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Terapontidae > Terapon > Terapon jarbua

Terapon jarbua (Tiger-perch; Three-striped tiger fish; Threestripe tigerfish; Thornfish; Thonfish; Squeaking perch; Spiky trumpeter; Jarbua terapon; Jarbua; Cresent perch; Cresent grunter; Crescent-banded tiger-fish; Crescent-banded grunter; Crescent perch; Crescent grunter; Convex-lined therapon; Convex-lined grunt; Grunter; Croaker ; Tiger perch; Small-scaled terapon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Terapon jarbua, Target Fish, Crescent Bass, Crescent Perch or Tiger Bass is a Grunter from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 36 cm in length although is rarely seen half that size in the aquarium.It gets its name from the concentric circle pattern that can be seen from above, resembling a target.Wild individuals feed on insects, plant matter, small fish, fish scales and crustaceans. This species can be found in brackish water in certain parts of Australia.
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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Stomach content analysis of Terapon jarbua (Forsskal) from Parangipettai coast, South East Coast of India, Manoharan J, Gopalakrishnan A, Varadharajan D, Thilagavathi B and Priyadharsini S, Adv. Appl. Sci. Res., 2012, 3(5):2605-2621
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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