Sooty grunter

Sooty grunter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Hephaestus
Species:
H. fuliginosus
Binomial name
Hephaestus fuliginosus
(Macleay, 1883)
Synonyms[2]
  • Therapon fuliginosus Macleay, 1883
  • Therapon bancrofti Ogilby & McCulloch, 1916
  • Terapon alligatoris Rendahl, 1922

The sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus), also known by the name black bream, blubberlips, Northern grunter or purple grunter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It inhabits coastal and inland freshwater creeks and rivers of northern Australia.

  1. ^ Ebner, B.; Brooks, S. (2019). "Hephaestus fuliginosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T122906480A123382306. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T122906480A123382306.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hephaestus fuliginosus". FishBase. December 2019 version.