Striped grunter
| Striped grunter | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Hephaestus |
| Species: | H. obtusifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| Hephaestus obtusifrons | |
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The striped grunter (Hephaestus obtusifrons) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It is found only in the Bewani Mountains in the headwaters of the Pual River system in Papua New Guinea and the upper Sermowai River, Western new Guinea, Indonesia.[3] [2]
Habitat
[edit]It is found in high altitude, fast flowing mountains streams. [2]
Breeding behavior
[edit]The males guard and fan the eggs.[2]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 12.5 cm (4.9 in).[2]
Etymology
[edit]The fishes name in Latin = obtusus, obtuse; frons, front, presumably referring to its “even blunter snout” compared to the similar Hephaestus transmontanus which was described in the same publication. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Palmer-Newton, A. (2020). "Hephaestus obtusifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T9946A147759715. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T9946A147759715.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hephaestus obtusifrons". FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Allen, G.R., 1991. Field guide to the freshwater fishes of New Guinea. Publication, no. 9. 268 p. Christensen Research Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CENTRARCHIFORMES: Families CENTRARCHIDAE, ELASSOMATIDAE, ENOPLOSIDAE, SINIPERCIDAE, APLODACTYLIDAE, CHEILODACTYLIDAE, CHIRONEMIDAE, CIRRHITIDAE, LATRIDAE, PERCICHTHYIDAE, DICHISTIIDAE, GIRELLIDAE, KUHLIIDAE, KYPHOSIDAE, OPLEGNATHIDAE, TERAPONTIDAE, MICROCANTHIDAE and SCORPIDIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
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