Author: Maeda & Palla, 2015
Comments: Occurs in pools with a substrate composed of a mixture of boulders, gravel, and pebbles with exposed bedrock in some places.  Also found in rapids.  Two cyprinid species, <i>Barbodes palavanensis (Boulenger) and <i>Rasbora everetti Boulenger co-exist very abundantly with <i>Stiphodon palawanensis.  Syntopic with other  common fishes such as two gobioids, <i>Glossogobius illimis Hoese & Allen and <i>Redigobius sp., and a halfbeak <i>Dermogenys palawanensis<i> Meisner (Ref. 104909).