Biology:Enneapterygius clea

From HandWiki
Short description: Species of fish

Enneapterygius clea
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Enneapterygius
Species:
E. clea
Binomial name
Enneapterygius clea
Fricke, 1997

Enneapterygius clea, or Clea's triplefin, is a species of threefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius, described by Germany ichthyologist Ronald Fricke in 1997. It is endemic to Queensland, Australia .

Etymology

Enneapterygius clea was described by Ronald Fricke in 1997, from a male holotype (AMS I.22600-056) and 34 paratype specimens.[2] He gave the blenny its species epithet, "clea", and its common name in honour of his daughter Clea, then seven years old.[2]

Description

Fricke described Enneapterygius clea as a medium-sized member of the Enneapterygius hemimelas species group, and considered it to be most closely related to the blacktail triplefin (Enneapterygius bahasa) and the redtail triplefin (Enneapterygius rubicauda), both from the western Pacific Ocean.[2] Clea's triplefins have yellow-orange bodies with red streaks, orange vertical fins and blue-gray eyes. Males have black heads and tails, while the females do not share this feature. Male Clea's triplefins can reach a maximum length of 3.2 centimetres.[3]

Distribution

The Clea's triplefin is a tropical blenny, endemic to reefs around Queensland, Australia , in the western central Pacific Ocean. It swims at a depth range of 4–24 metres.[3]

References

  1. Williams, J. (2014). "Enneapterygius clea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T178891A1544283. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178891A1544283.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178891/1544283. Retrieved 20 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fricke, R. (1997). Tripterygiid fishes of the western and central Pacific, with descriptions of 15 new species, including an annotated checklist of world Tripterygiidae (Teleostei). Koeltz Scientific Books. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Enneapterygius clea" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2945880 entry