Enneapterygius cheni

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J. |date=2014 |title=Enneapterygius cheni |volume=2014 |page=e.T178890A1544170 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178890A1544170.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Enneapterygius cheni

| authority = S. C. Wang, K. T. Shao & S. C. Shen, 1996

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Enneapterygius cheni is a species of threefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius.{{FishBase|Enneapterygius|cheni|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by S.C. Wang, K.T. Shao, and S.C. Shen in 1996.{{cite journal | author1 =Wang, S.-C. | author2 = K.-T. Shao | author3 = S.-C. Shen | name-list-style = amp | year = 1996 | title = Enneapterygius cheni;, a new triplefin fish (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from Taiwan | journal = Acta Zoologica Taiwanica | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 79–83}} It is a subtropical blenny found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and swims at depths ranging from 0–12 metres. It has been described from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands. Male E. cheni can reach a maximum length of 2.4 centimetres. The specific name honours the person who collected the type, Jeng-Ping Chen of the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes1/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | access-date = 17 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}