Cunningham's triplefin (''Helcogrammoides cunninghami'') is a species of

triplefin Threefin or triplefin blennies are blenny, blenniiforms, small Percomorpha, percomorph marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the ...

blenny in the genus ''

Helcogrammoides ''Helcogrammoides'' is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae. The species in this genus are found in South America and the Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in A ...

''. It was described by Frederik Adam Smitt in 1898, who named it in honour the

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(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

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, Chile,

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in Argentina and the

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q599308 Cinnihgham's triplefin Fish described in 1898