Striped grunter
| Striped grunter | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| 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 , , Indonesia. It is found in igh altitude, fast flowing mountains streams. The males guard and fan the eggs.[2]
References[]
- ^ Palmer-Newton, A. (2020). "Hephaestus obtusifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T9946A147759715. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Hephaestus obtusifrons" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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- IUCN Red List vulnerable species
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- Freshwater fish of Papua New Guinea
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