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Enneapterygius ornatus

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2463494 ↗
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Enneapterygius ornatus, known commonly as the Henderson triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius. It was described by Ronald Fricke in 1997. It occurs only at Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

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This entry incorporates text from “Enneapterygius ornatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.