Cunningham's triplefin

Cunningham's triplefin (Helcogrammoides cunninghami) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogrammoides.^[2] It was described by Frederik Adam Smitt in 1898,^[3] who named it in honour the Scottish naturalist Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), who had collected specimens of this fish from Puerto Madryn in 1868 but was unable to identify them.^[4] This species has been found in Peru, near Lima,^[5] Chile, Puerto Madryn in Argentina and the Falkland Islands.^[1]

Cunningham's triplefin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Tripterygiidae
Genus:	Helcogrammoides
Species:	H. cunninghami
Binomial name
Helcogrammoides cunninghami (Smitt, 1898)
Synonyms
Tripterygion cunninghami Smitt, 1898