Cunningham's triplefin (''Helcogrammoides cunninghami'') 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 in the genus ''
Helcogrammoides
''Helcogrammoides'' is a genus of Threefin blenny, triplefins in the family (biology), family Tripterygiidae. The species in this genus are found in South America and the Antarctic Peninsula.
Species
* ''Helcogrammoides antarcticus'' (Tomo, 1981 ...
''.
It was
described by Frederik Adam Smitt in 1898,
who named it in honour the
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
naturalist Robert Oliver Cunningham
Robert Oliver Cunningham (27 March 1841 – 1918) was a Scottish naturalist.
Birth and early life
Cunningham was born on 27 March 1841, in Prestonpans, the second son of the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham (1806–78), Free Church of Scotland minis ...
(1841-1918), who had collected
specimens of this fish from Puerto Madryn in 1868 but was unable to identify them.
This species has been found in Peru, near
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
,
Chile,
Puerto Madryn in Argentina and the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...
.
References
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Cinnihgham's triplefin
Fish described in 1898