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Threefin blenny

Index Threefin blenny

Threefin or triplefin blennies are blennioids, small perciform marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. [1]

59 relations: Acanthanectes, Apopterygion, Aquarium, Atlantic Ocean, Axoclinus, Bellapiscis, Blennioidei, Blue dot triplefin, Bullhead triplefin, Camouflage, Cape triplefin, Ceratobregma, Coral, Cryptic triplefin, Demersal fish, Diurnality, Dorsal fin, Enneanectes, Enneapterygius, Eocene, Fish, Forsterygion, Genus, Giant triplefin, Gilloblennius, Greek language, Helcogramma, Helcogrammoides, Holocene, Indian Ocean, Invertebrate, Lagoon, Largemouth triplefin, Lepidoblennius, Lepidonectes, Lizard triplefin, Matanui, Miocene, Neogene, New Zealand topknot, Norfolkia, Notoclinops, Notoclinus, Oblique-swimming triplefin, Oligocene, Pacific Ocean, Paleocene, Paleogene, Perciformes, Pleistocene, ..., Quaternary, Reef, Ruanoho, Scaly-headed triplefin, Sexual dimorphism, Southern barred triplefin, Springerichthys, Trinorfolkia, Tripterygion. Expand index (9 more) »

Acanthanectes

Acanthanectes is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Apopterygion

Apopterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Aquarium

An aquarium (plural: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Axoclinus

Axoclinus is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Bellapiscis

Bellapiscis is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Blennioidei

Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for a type of fish.

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Blue dot triplefin

The blue dot triplefin, Notoclinops caerulepunctus, is a fish in the genus Notoclinops, found around offshore islands and exposed headlands of the eastern side of Northland, and the Bay of Plenty, on the North Island of New Zealand from depths of a metre or so to about 30 m, most common in reef areas of broken rock.

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Bullhead triplefin

The bullhead triplefin, Trianectes bucephalus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Trianectes, found in the eastern Indian Ocean around southern Australia, from Western Australia to Victoria and Tasmania at depths down to 5 m. Its length is up to about 7 cm.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

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Cape triplefin

The Cape triplefin, Cremnochorites capensis, is a triplefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Cremnochorites, found in the western Indian Ocean and southeast Atlantic, from Sodwana Bay to False Bay in South Africa.

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Ceratobregma

Ceratobregma is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Cryptic triplefin

The cryptic triplefin, Cryptichthys jojettae, is a triplefin of the family Tripterygiidae, the only member of the genus Cryptichthys, found around the coast of New Zealand.

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Demersal fish

Demersal fish live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.

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Enneanectes

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

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Enneapterygius

Enneapterygius is a genus of fish in the family Tripterygiidae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Forsterygion

Forsterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae native to coastal New Zealand, but also introduced to Tasmania, Australia.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Giant triplefin

The giant triplefin, Blennodon dorsale, is a triplefin of the family Tripterygiidae, the only member of the genus Blennodon, found around the coast of New Zealand.

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Gilloblennius

Gilloblennius is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Helcogramma

Helcogramma is a genus in the triplefin family Tripterygiidae.

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Helcogrammoides

Helcogrammoides is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Lagoon

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.

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Largemouth triplefin

The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa Iti, at depths of between 2 and 41 m. Its length is up to about 47 mm.

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Lepidoblennius

Lepidoblennius is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Lepidonectes

Lepidonectes is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Lizard triplefin

The lizard triplefin, Crocodilichthys gracilis, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Crocodilichthys, found in the Gulf of California in the eastern Central Pacific at depths down to 38 m. Its length is only up to about 64 mm.

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Matanui

Matanui is a genus of triplefin blennies (family Tripterygiidae).

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Neogene

The Neogene (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya.

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New Zealand topknot

The New Zealand topknot, Notoclinus fenestratus, is a triplefin of the genus Notoclinus, found around the North Island of New Zealand in reef areas of broken rock and brown seaweed.

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Norfolkia

Norfolkia is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Notoclinops

Notoclinops is the name of a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.

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Notoclinus

Notoclinus is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Oblique-swimming triplefin

The oblique-swimming triplefin, Forsterygion maryannae, is a triplefin, found along the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand from depths of about 5 m to 50 m. They are the only triplefins not to spend most of their time resting on the bottom, instead swimming in loose schools of up to hundreds of individuals above rocky reefs.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Perciformes

Perciformes, also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Reef

A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.

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Ruanoho

Ruanoho is a genus of triplefin blennies (family Tripterygiidae).

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Scaly-headed triplefin

The scaly-headed triplefin, Karalepis stewarti, is a triplefin, the only species in the genus Karalepis, found around the north east of the North Island of New Zealand from depths of about 5 to 30 m, in reef areas of broken rock.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Southern barred triplefin

The southern barred triplefin, Brachynectes fasciatus, is a triplefin of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Brachynectes, found around Australia's south coast including Tasmania at depths down to 13 m. Its length is only up to about 41 mm.

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Springerichthys

Springerichthys is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Trinorfolkia

Trinorfolkia is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae.

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Tripterygion

Tripterygion is a genus of fish in the family Tripterygiidae, the threefin blennies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefin_blenny

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