title: Scortum
text: # Scortum
  
  Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
  
  Species include:
  
  * Scortum barcoo (McCulloch & Waite, 1917) (Barcoo grunter)
  * Scortum hillii (Castelnau, 1878) (leathery grunter)
  * Scortum neili Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993 (Neil's grunter)
  * Scortum parviceps (Macleay, 1883) (small-headed grunter)
  