Enneapterygius clarkae

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J. |date=2014 |title=Enneapterygius clarkae |volume=2014 |page=e.T179080A1567395 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T179080A1567395.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Enneapterygius clarkae

| authority = Holleman, 1982

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Enneapterygius clarkae, the barred triplefin, is a species of threefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius.{{FishBase|Enneapterygius|clarkae|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by Wouter Holleman in 1982, and was given its species epithet in honour of American ichthyologist Eugenie Clark{{cite journal| author = Holleman, W. | year = 1982 | title = Three new species and a new genus of tripterygiid fishes (Blenniodei) from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean | journal = Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History) | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | pages = 109–137}}{{cite book | page = 118 | title = Marine science: the people behind the science | series = Pioneers in science | author = Katherine E. Cullen | publisher = Infobase Publishing | year = 2006 | isbn = 0816054657}} (1922-2015){{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 | accessdate = 17 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}} It is a tropical blenny known from the Indian Ocean, and has been described from the Red Sea to Natal, South Africa. Male barred triplefins can reach a maximum length of 2.5 centimetres.