| Hotlips triplefin | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Blennioidei |
| Family: | Tripterygiidae |
| Genus: | Helcogramma |
| Species: | H. obtusirostre |
| Binomial name | |
| Helcogramma obtusirostre (Klunzinger, 1871) |
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The hotlips triplefin, Helcogramma obtusirostre, is a triplefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae, found from the Red Sea south to South Africa and east to the western Pacific, and the southeast Atlantic, around Ascension Island and St. Helena. It reaches a maximum length of 45 cm according to FishBase, but only 4 cm according to "Two Oceans".