Forsterygion gymnotum, commonly known as the robust triplefin, Tasmanian robust triplefin, bare-backed triplefin, multifid-tentacled robust triplefin, and the estuarine threefin in Australia is a type of triplefin fish belonging to the genus Forsterygion. It is one of twenty-seven triplefin species native to New Zealand but was first described in Tasmania in 1977 by Eric Oswald Scott.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Robust Triplefin being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Forsterygion capito
- Ruanoho decemdigitatus
- Forsterygion nigripenne
- Scartichthys gigas
- Hypsoblennius gilberti
- Forsterygion lapillum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Tripterygiidae
- Genus
- Forsterygion
- Species
- Forsterygion gymnotum
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