Genus Hephaestus De Vis, 1884

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• Hephaestus De Vis, C.W. 1884. New Australian fishes in the Queensland Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 9(2): 389-400 [399].

  Type species:

   Hephaestus tulliensis De Vis, 1884 by monotypy.
• Papuservus Whitley, G.P. 1943. Ichthyological notes and illustrations. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 167-187 figs 1-10 [182].

  Type species:

   Therapon trimaculatus Macleay, 1883 by original designation.
• Archerichthys Whitley, G.P. 1951. Studies in Ichthyology No. 15. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 389-408 figs 1-14 [398] [replacement name; as subgenus of Leiopotherapon, replacement for Archeria Nichols, 1949].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vari, R.P. 1978. The terapon perches (Percoidei, Terapontidae) a cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(5): 175-340 figs 1-94 [279]

 

Introduction

Genetic work has suggested that the genus is polyphyletic, with H. carbo closer to Leioptherapon and Amniataba than other Australian species of Hephaestus (see Pusey et al. 2016). That study also indicated data from nuclear genes suggested that H. tulliensis andH. jenkensi belonged to a single species, but data from mitocondrial genes suggested the species were distinct,

 

Excluded Taxa

Other Excluded

TERAPONTIDAE: Hephaestus trimaculatus (Macleay, 1883) [recorded by Whitley, 1964, as Papuservus trimaculatus based on doubtful record from Cape York] — Allen, G.R. 1991. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of New Guinea. Madang : Christensen Research Institute 268 pp. [Publication No. 9 of the Christensen Research Institute] [126] (considered confined to Laloki River system near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

General References

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls.

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp.

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs.

Pusey, B.J., Bentley, A., Burrow, D., Perna, C., Davis, A. & Hughes, J. 2016. Complex and contrasting evolutionary histories within the terapontid genus Hephaestus revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Marine and Freshwater Research 67(12): 1813–1825

Vari, R.P. 1978. The terapon perches (Percoidei, Terapontidae) a cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(5): 175-340 figs 1-94

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	TERAPONTIDAE	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
03-Sep-2018	TERAPONTIDAE	18-Jan-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett
05-Dec-2012		05-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED