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Roughhead Triplefin

Enneanectes boehlkei

Also known as: Caribbean Roughhead Triplefin

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2025
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Adult
@Catriona · Whitehouse Bay, St Kitts & Nevis · March 20211 / 1
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Overview

Found on rocky bottoms of patch reefs, over shallow, inshore waters.

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

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
speckled

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Caribbean
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Found on rocky bottoms of patch reefs, over shallow, inshore waters.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyTripterygiidae
    6. genusEnneanectes
    7. speciesEnneanectes boehlkei Rosenblatt, 1960

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    More in the family

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    Pygmy Triplefin

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