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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| taxon = Matanui
| authority = [[Laith A Jawad|Jawad]] & [[Kendall D. Clements|Clements]], 2004
| type_species = ''Forsterygion bathytaton''
| type_species_authority = [[Graham Stuart Hardy|Hardy]], 1989<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=10793|title=Matanui|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>
| synonyms =
}}
'''''Matanui''''' is a genus of [[triplefin]] blennies (family Tripterygiidae), they are [[Endemism|endemic]] to New Zealand.<ref name="Fishbase">{{FishBase genus|genus=Matanui|month=-April|year=2019}}</ref>
==Species==
* [[Chatham deep-water triplefin]], ''[[Matanui bathytaton]]'' <small>(Hardy, 1989)</small>
* [[Deepwater triplefin]], ''[[Matanui profundum]]'' <small>([[Ronald Fricke|Fricke]] & [[Clive D. Roberts|Roberts]], 1994)</small>
==Etymology==
The name ''Matanui'' is derived from the [[Māori language|Māori]] words ''mata'' meaning "eye" and ''nui'' meaning "large", a reference to its large eyes.<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 = 27 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Tripterygiidae]]