Author: Maeda, Mukai & Tachihara, 2012
Comments: Adults and juveniles inhabit freshwater streams, usually in pools. Often form shoals with  conspecific individuals and the congeners <i>Stiphodon percnopterygionus</i> and <i>Stiphodon atropurpureus</i>, and occasionally with <i>Stiphodon imperiorientis</i>.