Trumpeter Perch
Pelates sexlineatus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 463
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Pelates quadrilineatus, also known as the trumpeter perch or fourlined terapon, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. It occurs in the western Indo-Pacific region, and also in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, having arrived there by passing through the Suez Canal.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pelates quadrilineatus”.