Hephaestus_(fish)
Hephaestus (fish)
Genus of fishes
Hephaestus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish, grunters from the family Terapontidae.
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| Hephaestus | |
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| Hephaestus carbo | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Hephaestus de Vis, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Hephaestus tulliensis De Vis, 1884[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The following species are classified within the genus:[3]
- Hephaestus adamsoni (Trewavas, 1940) (Adamson's grunter)
- Hephaestus carbo (Ogilby & McCulloch, 1916) (Coal grunter)
- Hephaestus epirrhinos Vari & Hutchins, 1978 (Longnose sooty grunter)
- Hephaestus fuliginosus (Macleay, 1883) (Sooty grunter)
- Hephaestus habbemai (Weber, 1910) (Mountain grunter)
- Hephaestus jenkinsi (Whitley, 1945) (Western sooty grunter )
- Hephaestus komaensis Allen & Jebb, 1993
- Hephaestus lineatus Allen, 1984 (Lined grunter)
- Hephaestus obtusifrons (Mees & Kailola, 1977)
- Hephaestus raymondi (Mees & Kailola, 1977) (Raymond's grunter)
- Hephaestus roemeri (Weber, 1910) (Röemer's grunter)
- Hephaestus transmontanus (Mees & Kailola, 1977) (Sepik grunter)
- Hephaestus trimaculatus (Macleay, 1883) (Threespot grunter)
- Hephaestus tulliensis De Vis, 1884 (Khaki grunter)
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Hephaestus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Terapontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Hephaestus in FishBase. December 2019 version.