Tropical scaly-headed triplefin

Tropical scaly-headed triplefin
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Tripterygiidae
Genus:	Norfolkia
Species:	N. brachylepis
Binomial name
	Norfolkia brachylepis; (Schultz, 1960)
Synonyms[2]
	Tripterygion brachylepis Schultz, 1960; Enneapterygius brachylepis (Schultz, 1960); Norfolkia springeri Clark, 1980;

Norfolkia brachylepis, known commonly as the tropical scaly-headed triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Norfolkia.[2] It was described by Leonard Schultz in 1960.[3] This is an Indo-Pacific species which is distributed from the Red Sea to Fiji, north to the Izu Islands and south to Australia.[1]

References

Holleman, W. (2014). "Norfolkia brachylepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T178992A1556629. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178992A1556629.en.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Norfolkia {{{2}}}" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Norfolkia brachylepis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 May 2019.

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[iucn-1] Holleman, W. (2014). "Norfolkia brachylepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T178992A1556629. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178992A1556629.en.

[Fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Norfolkia {{{2}}}" in FishBase. April 2019 version.

[3] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Norfolkia brachylepis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 May 2019.