cryptic triplefin

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Speciesbox | name = Cryptic triplefin

|image=Cryptichthys jojettae (cropped).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Clements, K.D. |date=2014 |title=Cryptichthys jojettae |volume=2014 |page=e.T178993A1556848 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178993A1556848.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Cryptichthys jojettae

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Hardy, 1987{{Cof record|spid=7628|title =jojettae, Cryptichthys|access-date=16 May 2019}}

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The cryptic triplefin (Cryptichthys jojettae) is a species of triplefin in the family Tripterygiidae. It is found around the coast of New Zealand and is the only member of the monotypic genus Cryptichthys. It length is up to 6 cm.{{FishBase | genus = Cryptichthys | species = jojettae | month = May | year = 2006}} The specific name honours a former staff member at the National Museum of New Zealand, Jojette Drost, who participated in collecting specimens with Hardy.{{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 = 16 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}