Red-eye threefin

{{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 ellioti |volume=2014 |page=e.T178912A1546874 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178912A1546874.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Helcogramma ellioti

| authority = (Herre, 1944)

| synonyms = Tripterygion ellioti Herre, 1944

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The red-eye threefin (Helcogramma ellioti) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogramma.{{Fishbase|Helcogramma|ellioti|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by Albert William Herre in 1944{{Cof record|spid=41193|title = Helcogramma ellioti|access-date=25 May 2019}} who honoured the Scottish naturalist and ethnologist Walter Elliot (1803-1897) in its specific name.{{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 = 25 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}} This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the eastern and western coasts of India and around Sri Lanka.