Species: Axoclinus rubinoffi, Rubinoff's triplefin
Axoclinus rubinoffi Allen & Robertson, 1992
Rubinoff's triplefin
Body short, robust; head large; cirri on head small, simple, 1 pair over nostrils, 1 pair over eyes; no teeth on sides of roof of mouth; three dorsal fins (III + XII + 10); dorsal fin soft rays unbranched, except last ray branched to base; anal fin II, 17-18; pelvic fins completely separate; lateral line gradually descending from upper edge of gill cover to midlateral axis, with 22-23 tubed scales followed by 12-13 notched scales; scales above lateral line about wide as long; scales small, none on head, breast, belly, and base of pectoral fins; total scales in longitudinal series 35-36.
Body with three broad brown to blackish bars and blackish band on caudal peduncle, bars narrowly margined with pearl white, particularly posterior ones; narrower pale brownish bars between dark bars; male with blackish tail fin that is confluent with dark bar on tail base.
Size: grows to about 3.5 cm.
Inhabits shallow intertidal rocky areas.
Depth: 0-15 m.
Known only from Isla Malpelo.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Malpelo Island endemic
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 15
