Striped grunter

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. It is found in igh altitude, fast flowing mountains streams. The males guard and fan the eggs.[2]

Striped grunter

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Hephaestus
Species:
H. obtusifrons
Binomial name
Hephaestus obtusifrons
(Mees & Kailola, 1977)
Synonyms[2]
  • Therapon obtusifrons Mees & Kailola, 1977

References
  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Hephaestus obtusifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9946A13028185. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9946A13028185.en. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Hephaestus obtusifrons" in FishBase. December 2019 version.


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