Crescent-banded Grunter
Terapon jarbua
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,590
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Terapon jarbua, also known as the jarbua terapon, crescent grunter, crescent banded grunter, crescent perch, spiky trumpeter, thornfish or tiger perch, is a species of ray-finned fish, of the family Terapontidae with a distribution in the Indo-Pacific. It is an important commercial species within its range and is sometimes found in the aquarium trade where it is known as "target fish" for the pattern visible from above.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Terapon jarbua”.