''Enneanectes carminalis'', known commonlfix small tagy as the carmine triplefin or the delicate triplefin in
Mexico and the
United Kingdom,
[ is a species of ]triplefin
Threefin or triplefin blennies are blenniiforms, small percomorph marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the family contains about 150 species in 30 genera. Th ...
blenny.[ It is a tropical blenny known from reefs from Mexico to Panama, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.][ It was originally described by D.S. Jordan and C.H. Gilbert in 1882, as ''Tripterygium carminale''.][ and feed primarily off of ]benthic
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning "t ...
algae
Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...
and invertebrates.[
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Fish described in 1882
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