Helen's Triplefin
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''Ceratobregma helenae'', known commonly as the Helen's triplefin, 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. It has an
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distribution from
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to
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, north to
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and south to south eastern Australia. The species is named after Wouter Holleman's wife, Helen.


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helenae Taxa named by Wouter Holleman Fish described in 1987 {{Blenniiformes-stub