Largemouth triplefin
| Largemouth triplefin | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Tripterygiidae |
| Genus: | Ucla Holleman, 1993[1] |
| Species: | U. xenogrammus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993[1] | |
The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa Iti, at depths of between 2 and 41 m. Its length is up to about 47 mm.
References
- 1 2 Holleman, Wouter (1993). "Ucla xenogrammus, a new genus and species of Indo- Pacific fishes (Perciformes, Tripterygiidae)". J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication. 55: 1–10. ISSN 0075-2088.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Ucla xenogrammus" in FishBase. June 2006 version.
- "Ucla". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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