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Tropical scaly-headed triplefin

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The tropical scaly-headed triplefin (Norfolkia brachylepis) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Norfolkia.[2] It was described by Leonard Schultz in 1960.[3] This is an Indo-Pacific species which is distributed from the Red Sea to Fiji, north to the Izu Islands and south to Australia.[1]

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Tropical scaly-headed triplefin
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Norfolkia
Species:
N. brachylepis
Binomial name
Norfolkia brachylepis
(Schultz, 1960)
Synonyms[2]
  • Tripterygion brachylepis Schultz, 1960
  • Enneapterygius brachylepis (Schultz, 1960)
  • Norfolkia springeri Clark, 1980
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