Enneanectes_boehlkei

<i>Enneanectes boehlkei</i>

Enneanectes boehlkei

Species of fish

Enneanectes boehlkei, known commonly as the roughhead triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny.[2] This species occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Bahamas west into the Gulf of Mexico, including the Florida Keys to Tuxpan, Mexico and throughout the Caribbean, it is absent from most of Cuba except the north west, and off the northern South American coast its range extends from Cartagena, Colombia to the Orinoco River in Venezuela.[1] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist James Erwin Böhlke (1930-1982) of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Williams, J.T. (2014). "Enneanectes boehlkei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T178910A1546594. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178910A1546594.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Enneanectes boehlkei" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. [3]
    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.


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