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Common names: Japanese blacktail triplefin, Kulbicki's threefin, Kulbicki's triplefin
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Importance: of no interest | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Occurs in Cape Grenville area to Cooktown area in Queensland. Also in Homes Reefs in the Coral Sea (Ref. 13227). Also Ref. 27223.
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Main Ref: Fricke, R., 1994
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Japanese blacktail triplefin, 库氏细翼鳚, Kulbicki's threefin, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Blenniiformes (Blennies) > Tripterygiidae (Triplefin blennies) > Tripterygiinae
Etymology: More on authors: Fricke & Randall.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 2 - 15 m (Ref. 13227). Tropical

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Southwest Pacific: Australia to New Caledonia, Fiji, then east to Tonga, Niue and American Samoa.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 54980)

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Dorsal spines (total): 14 - 18; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6 - 10; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 18 - 21. Dorsal profile steep with very short snout; head and preopercular area naked; slender supraorbital tentacle; first dorsal fin a third of the height of second dorsal fin; body coloration gray with 5 indistinct, broad, paired brown bars; uneven bright orange spots on head and anterior body, small posteriorly, and mostly orange on posterior margins of scales; caudal-fin with black base, gray center with a midlateral orange band, a thin white margin, black submarginal line, and a wide bright red-orange arc. Dorsal rays III + XI-XV + 6-10; lateral line discontinuous, 21-22 + 17-19; mandibular pores 3 + 2 + 3 (Ref. 54980).

Eggs are hemispherical and covered with numerous sticky threads that anchor them in the algae on the nesting sites (Ref. 240). Larvae are planktonic which occur primarily in shallow, nearshore waters (Ref. 94114). Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Fricke, Ronald | Collaborators

Fricke, R., 1994. Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific Ocean (Teleostei). Theses Zool. 24:1-585. (Ref. 13227)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 06 May 2010

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.9 - 29.4, mean 27.6 (based on 700 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00562 (0.00258 - 0.01228), b=3.08 (2.89 - 3.27), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.1 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Springerichthys kulbickii (Fricke & Randall, 1994)