Striped grunter

Striped grunter
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Family:	Terapontidae
Genus:	Hephaestus
Species:	H. obtusifrons
Binomial name
	Hephaestus obtusifrons; (Mees & Kailola, 1977)
Synonyms
	Therapon obtusifrons Mees & Kailola, 1977;

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

It is found in high altitude, fast flowing mountains streams. ^[2]

Breeding behavior

The males guard and fan the eggs.^[2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 12.5 cm (4.9 in).^[2]

Etymology

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

^ 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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[iucn_status_16_November_2021-1] 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.

[Fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hephaestus obtusifrons". FishBase. December 2019 version.

[3] 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.

[ETYFish-4] 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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