Tripterygiidae

Tripterygion tripteronotus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Blennioidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Blenniimorphae Ordo: Blenniiformes Subordo: Blennioidei

Familia: Tripterygiidae

Subfamiliae:

• Tripterygiinae
  • Genera:

Acanthanectes – Apopterygion – Axoclinus – Bellapiscis – Blennodon – Ceratobregma – Cremnochorites – Crocodilichthys – Cryptichthys – Enneanectes – Enneapterygius – Forsterygion – Gilloblennius – Helcogramma – Helcogrammoides – Karalepis – Lepidoblennius – Lepidonectes – Matanui – Norfolkia – Notoclinops – Ruanoho – Springerichthys – Trianectes – Trinorfolkia – Tripterygion – Ucla

• Notoclininae
  • Genera:

Brachynectes – Notoclinus

nom

• Tripterygiidae Whitley, 1931

References

• Fricke, R. 1994: Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific Ocean (Teleostei). Theses zoologicae, 24: i-ix, 1-585.
• Holleman, W.; Bogorodsky, S.V. 2012: A review of the blennioid fish family Tripterygiidae (Perciformes) in the Red Sea, with description of Enneapterygius qirmiz, and reinstatement of Enneapterygius altipinnis Clark, 1980. Zootaxa, 3152: 36–60. Preview
• Miller, E.C., Lin, H.-C. & Hastings, P.A. 2016 (Online 2015). Improved Resolution and a Novel Phylogeny for the Neotropical Triplefin Blennies (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96: 70–78. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.003 . Reference page. 
• Roberts, C.D.; Paulin, C.D.; Stewart, A.L.; McPhee, R.P.; McDowall, R.M. (compilers) 2009: Checklist of New Zealand Chordata: living lancelets, jawless fishes, cartilaginous fishes, and bony fishes. Pp. 527-536 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8
• Wainwright, P.C., Smith, W.L., Price, S.A., Tang, K.L., Ferry, L.A., Sparks, J.S. & Near, T.J. 2012. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Systematic biology 61(6): 1001–1027. (PDF) DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys060 Reference page. 
• Whitley, G. P. 1931. New names for Australian fishes. Australian Zoologist 6(4): 310–334, Pls. 25–27. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Tripterygiidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Genera of Tripterygiidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

English: triplefins, threefin blennies
italiano: Peperoncino
日本語: ヘビギンポ科
Nederlands: Drievinslijmvissen

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