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Blue-eyed Triplefin

Notoclinops segmentatus

Also known as: Threefin, Threefin Blenny, Triplefin

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@markn · Fitzroy Is Gt Barrier Reef, Australia · August 20241 / 1
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Overview

Found in areas thick with algae growth, over broken rock and steep rock faces with overhangs.
Southwest Pacific - Mainland New Zealand

These Blenny related fish have three fins which gives them their name "Triplefins"

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
stripes
Head & Mouth
blue eyes

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Southwest Pacific
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Found in areas thick with algae growth, over broken rock and steep rock faces with overhangs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyTripterygiidae
    6. genusNotoclinops
    7. speciesNotoclinops segmentatus (McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)

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    More in the family

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