Tripterygiidae

Tasmanian robust triplefin

Forsterygion gymnotum

Endemic Tripterygiid Fish of New Zealand Waters

• Temperate
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Elongated
• Small
• Temperate fish

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.