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striped grunter

{{Short description|Species of ray-finned fish}}

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| image = Haemulon elegans - 1817-1841 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ13000153.tif

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Palmer-Newton, A. |date=2020 |title=Hephaestus obtusifrons |volume=2020 |page=e.T9946A147759715 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T9946A147759715.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| taxon = Hephaestus obtusifrons

| authority = (Mees & Kailola, 1977)

| synonyms = *Therapon obtusifrons Mees & Kailola, 1977

| synonyms_ref =

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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.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. {{Fishbase|Hephaestus|obtusifrons|month=December|year=2019}}

Habitat

It is found in high altitude, fast flowing mountains streams.

Breeding behavior

The males guard and fan the eggs.

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|12.5|cm|in|abbr=on}}.

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.

{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/centrarchiformes/ | title = Order CENTRARCHIFORMES: Families CENTRARCHIDAE, ELASSOMATIDAE, ENOPLOSIDAE, SINIPERCIDAE, APLODACTYLIDAE, CHEILODACTYLIDAE, CHIRONEMIDAE, CIRRHITIDAE, LATRIDAE, PERCICHTHYIDAE, DICHISTIIDAE, GIRELLIDAE, KUHLIIDAE, KYPHOSIDAE, OPLEGNATHIDAE, TERAPONTIDAE, MICROCANTHIDAE and SCORPIDIDAE | access-date= 26 January 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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Category:Hephaestus (fish)

Category:Freshwater fish of Papua New Guinea

Category:Freshwater fish of Western New Guinea

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Gerlof Mees

Category:Taxa named by Patricia J. Kailola

Category:Fish described in 1977

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