Enneapterygius elaine

Enneapterygius elaine is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius.[2] It was described by Wouter Holleman in 2005.[3] It is a tropical blenny known from Rodrigues Island, in the western Indian Ocean. Male Enneapterygius elaine can reach a maximum length of 2.3 centimetres.[2] The specific name honours Elaine Heemstra of the Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity in Grahamstown who provided illustrations of reef fish for Holleman, including some in the paper in which this species was described.[4]

Enneapterygius elaine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Enneapterygius
Species:
E. elaine
Binomial name
Enneapterygius elaine
Holleman, 2005

References
  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Enneanectes elaine". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T179013A1559314. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T179013A1559314.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Enneapterygius elaine" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Holleman, W. (2005). "A review of the triplefin fish genus Enneapterygius (Blennioidei: Tripterygidae) in the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of four new species". Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity (Bulletin No. 5): 1–25.
  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 17 May 2019.
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