Description

Dorsal spines (total): 12 - 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 13; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 10 - 11.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Centrarchiformes

Family: Terapontidae

Genus: Hephaestus

Species: Hephaestus habbemai (Weber, 1910)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Adults inhabit cobble and gravel bottom streams and deep pools below rapids and waterfalls (Ref. 2847). Eggs are guarded and fanned by the male parent (Ref. 205).

Habitat

demersal