Twinspot triplefin

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hastings, P. |author2=Dominici-Arosemena, A. |author3=Bessudo, S. |date=2010 |title=Lepidonectes bimaculatus |volume=2010 |page=e.T183427A8111778 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183427A8111778.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lepidonectes bimaculatus

| authority = Allen & Robertson, 1992

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The twinspot triplefin (Lepidonectes bimaculatus) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Lepidonectes.{{FishBase|Lepidonectes|bimaculatus|month=April|year=2019}} It was described by Gerald R. Allen and David Ross Robertson in 1992.{{Cof record|spid=59636|title = Lepidonectes bimaculatus|access-date=27 May 2019}} This species is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean where it has been recorded only in the vicinity of Malpelo Island in Colombia. The twinspot triplefin acts as a cleaner fish, its only client species being the grouper Epinephelus labriformis.{{cite journal | author1 = Juan Pablo Quimbayo | author2 = M. S. Dias | author3 = O. R. C. Schlickmann | author4 = T. C. Mendes | name-list-style = amp | year = 2016 | title = Fish cleaning interactions on a remote island in the Tropical Eastern Pacific | url = https://www.academia.edu/30421552 | journal = Marine Biodiversity | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 603–608 | doi = 10.1007/s12526-016-0493-2}}