Cunningham's triplefin

Cunningham's triplefin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Tripterygiidae
Genus:	Helcogrammoides
Species:	H. cunninghami
Binomial name
Helcogrammoides cunninghami (Smitt, 1898)
Synonyms
Tripterygion cunninghamiSmitt, 1898

Cunningham's triplefin (Helcogrammoides cunninghami) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogrammoides . ^[2] It was described by Frederik Adam Smitt in 1898, ^[3] who named it in honour the Scottish naturalist Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), who had collected specimens of this fish from Puerto Madryn in 1868 but was unable to identify them. ^[4] This species has been found in Peru, near Lima, ^[5] Chile, Puerto Madryn in Argentina and the Falkland Islands. ^[1]

References

1. Williams, J. (2014). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014 e.T178996A1557179. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178996A1557179.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". FishBase . April 2019 version.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Helcogrammoides cunninghami". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 26 May 2019.
4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
5. Jeffrey T. Williams & Victor G. Springer (2001). "Review of the South American-Antarctic triplefin fish genus Helcogrammoides (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 49 (Supplement 1(1)): 117–23.