Helcogramma rharhabe

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Holleman, W. |date=2014 |title=Helcogramma rharhabe |volume=2014 |page=e.T178973A1554260 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178973A1554260.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Helcogramma rharhabe

| authority = Holleman, 2007

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Helcogramma rharhabe is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogramma.{{Fishbase|Helcogramma|rharhabe|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by Wouter Holleman in 2007,{{Cof record|spid=69690|title=Helcogramma rharhabe|access-date=26 May 2019}} the specific name the Xhosa chief Rharhabe who broke away from his main tribe and formed his own grouping named after him, the Rharhabe.{{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 = 26 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}} This species is found in the western Indian Ocean, along the south eastern coast of Africa from the Transkei to the Bazaruto Archipelago.