Ruanoho

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Ruanoho decemdigitatus 115078149.jpg | image_caption = ''Ruanoho decemdigitatus'' | taxon = Ruanoho | authority = Hardy, 1986 | type_species = ''Trypterigium decemdigitatus'' | type_species_authority = F.E. Clarke, 1879<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=9898|title=''Ruanho''|access-date=29 May 2019}}</ref> | synonyms = }}

'''''Ruanoho''''' is a genus of triplefin blennies (family Tripterygiidae).<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus|genus=Ruanoho|month=April|year=2019}}</ref> It is known from the southwestern Pacific Ocean off New Zealand. The generic name is a compound noun derived from the Māori ''rua'' meaning either "fish" or "hole" and ''noho'' meaning to "dwell" which refers to the habit of the species in this genus to shelter under rocks or within crevices.<ref name = ETYFish>{{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 = 29 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}</ref>

==Species== * Longfinned triplefin, ''Ruanoho decemdigitatus'' <small>(Clarke, 1879)</small> * Spectacled triplefin, ''Ruanoho whero'' <small>Hardy, 1986</small>

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Category:Ruanoho Category:Tripterygiidae Category:Actinopterygii genera Category:Endemic fauna of New Zealand Category:Taxa named by Graham Stuart Hardy