Signal triplefin

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hastings, P. |author2=Dominici-Arosemena, A. |date=2010 |title=Lepidonectes clarkhubbsi |volume=2010 |page=e.T183280A8086079 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183280A8086079.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lepidonectes clarkhubbsi

| authority = W. A. Bussing, 1991

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The signal triplefin (Lepidonectes clarkhubbsi) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Lepidonectes.{{Fishbase|Lepidonectes|clarkhubbsi|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by William Albert Bussing in 1991{{Cof record|spid=58865|title = Lepidonectes clarkhubbsi|access-date=27 May 2019}} and he gave it a specific name which honours the American ichthyologist Clark Hubbs (1921–2008).{{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}} This species occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean where it is found off Costa Rica and Panama. The signal triplefin is found on rocky shores where it feeds on very small invertebrates and algae.