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Enneanectes

Enneanectes is a genus of triplefin fish in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Enneanectes
Enneanectes carminalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Subfamily: Tripterygiinae
Genus: Enneanectes
D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1895
Type species
Tripterygium carminale
D.S. Jordan & Gilbert, 18821
Synonyms

Gillias Evermann & Marsh, 1899

Enneanectes is a genus of triplefin fish in the family Tripterygiidae.

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Enneanectes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  2. Victor, B.C. (2013): The Caribbean Roughhead Triplefin (Enneanectes boehlkei): DNA barcoding reveals a complex of four West Indian sympatric cryptic species (Teleostei: Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 7: 44-73.
  3. Rosenblatt, R.H., Miller, E.C. & Hastings, P.A. (2013): Three new species of triplefin blennies of the genus Enneanectes (Teleostei, Tripterygiidae) from the tropical eastern Pacific with a key to Pacific species of Enneanectes. Zootaxa, 3636 (2): 361–373.
  4. Victor, B. C. (2019). "Enneanectes flavus, a new endemic species of triplefin blenny from the southeastern Caribbean (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae)". Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 32: 1–16.
  5. Victor, B. C. (2017). "The status of Enneanectes jordani and a new species of triplefin blenny from the Greater Caribbean (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae)". Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 27: 48–73.