Enneanectes smithi

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Enneanectes smithi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Enneanectes
Species:
E. smithi
Binomial name
Enneanectes smithi
Lubbock & Edwards, 1981

Enneanectes smithi is a species of triplefin blenny. [2] It was described by Hugh Roger Lubbock and Alasdair James Edwards in 1981 from St Paul's Rocks in the western Atlantic Ocean. [3] The specific name honours Roger Wellesley Smith for his assistance to the Cambridge University expedition to St Paul's Rocks but no other information is given about this individual. [4]

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References

  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Enneanectes smithi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014: e.T178938A1550291. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178938A1550291.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Enneanectes smithi" in FishBase . April 2019 version.
  3. Lubbock, R. & A. J. Edwards (1981). "The fishes of Saint Paul's Rocks". Journal of Fish Biology. 18 (2): 135–157. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1981.tb02810.x.
  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 16 May 2019.