Largemouth triplefin

The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla,[3] found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa Iti,[1] at depths of between 2 and 41 metres (6.6 and 134.5 ft). Its length is up to about 47 millimetres (1.9 in).[4] The generic name was coined by ichthyologist Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in his unpublished dissertation of 1959 from the University of California Los Angeles and its is the initials of that institution,[5] it was formally applied by Holleman in 1993.[3]

Largemouth triplefin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Tripterygiidae
Genus:	Ucla
Species:	U. xenogrammus
Binomial name
Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993[2]

References

1. Williams, J. & Holleman, W. (2014). "Ucla xenogrammus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T178892A1544399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178892A1544399.en.
2. Holleman, Wouter (1993). "Ucla xenogrammus, a new genus and species of Indo- Pacific fishes (Perciformes, Tripterygiidae)". J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication. 55: 1–10. ISSN 0075-2088.
3. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Ucla". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Ucla xenogramma" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
5. 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 1 June 2019.

External links

• Photos of Largemouth triplefin on Sealife Collection