Tropical scaly-headed triplefin

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Tropical scaly-headed triplefin
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Norfolkia
Species:
N. brachylepis
Binomial name
Norfolkia brachylepis
(Schultz, 1960)
Synonyms [2]
  • Tripterygion brachylepisSchultz, 1960
  • Enneapterygius brachylepis(Schultz, 1960)
  • Norfolkia springeri Clark, 1980

The tropical scaly-headed triplefin (Norfolkia brachylepis) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Norfolkia . [2] It was described by Leonard Schultz in 1960. [3] This is an Indo-Pacific species which is distributed from the Red Sea to Fiji, north to the Izu Islands and south to Australia. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Holleman, W. (2014). "Norfolkia brachylepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014 e.T178992A1556629. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178992A1556629.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Norfolkia brachylepis". FishBase . April 2019 version.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Norfolkia brachylepis". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 28 May 2019.


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