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Cunningham's triplefin

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Cunningham's triplefin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Helcogrammoides
Species:
H. cunninghami
Binomial name
Helcogrammoides cunninghami
(Smitt, 1898)
Synonyms

Tripterygion cunninghami Smitt, 1898

Cunningham's triplefin (Helcogrammoides cunninghami) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogrammoides.[2] It was described by Frederik Adam Smitt in 1898,[3] who named it in honour the Scottish naturalist Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), who had collected specimens of this fish from Puerto Madryn in 1868 but was unable to identify them.[4] This species has been found in Peru, near Lima,[5] Chile, Puerto Madryn in Argentina and the Falkland Islands.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Williams, J. (2014). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T178996A1557179. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178996A1557179.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ Jeffrey T. Williams & Victor G. Springer (2001). "Review of the South American-Antarctic triplefin fish genus Helcogrammoides (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 49 (Supplement 1(1)): 117–23.