Matanui
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| taxon = Matanui
| authority = Jawad & Clements, 2004
| type_species = Forsterygion bathytaton
| type_species_authority = Hardy, 1989{{Cof record|genid=10793|title=Matanui|access-date=27 May 2019}}
| synonyms =
}}
Matanui is a genus of triplefin blennies (family Tripterygiidae), they are endemic to New Zealand.{{FishBase genus|genus=Matanui|month=-April|year=2019}}
Species
- Chatham deep-water triplefin, Matanui bathytaton (Hardy, 1989)
- Deepwater triplefin, Matanui profundum (Fricke & Roberts, 1994)
Etymology
The name Matanui is derived from the Māori words mata meaning "eye" and nui meaning "large", a reference to its large eyes.{{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 = 27 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}