Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Tripterygiidae > Helcogramma > Helcogramma obtusirostris

Helcogramma obtusirostris (Hotlips triplefin; Shortsnout triplefin)

Synonyms: Enneapterygius obtusirostre; Helcogramma obtusirostre; Tripterygion obtusirostre; Tripterygium obtusirostre
Language: Afrikaans; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Helcogramma obtusirostris, the hotlips triplefin or shortsnout triplefin, is a triplefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae, found from the Red Sea south to South Africa and east to the western Pacific, and the southeast Atlantic, around Ascension Island and St. Helena. It reaches a maximum length of 45 cm according to FishBase, but only 4 cm according to "Two Oceans".
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Predators

Fistularia commersonii (Bluespotted cornetfish)[1]
Pherallodichthys meshimaensis (Clingfish)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0