Biology:Giant clingfish
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Short description: Species of fish
| Giant clingfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiesocinae |
| Genus: | Haplocylix Briggs, 1955 |
| Species: | H. littoreus
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| Binomial name | |
| Haplocylix littoreus (J. R. Forster, 1801)
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| Synonyms | |
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Cyclopterus littoreus Forster, 1801 | |
The giant clingfish (Haplocylix littoreus) is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae, the only species in the genus Haplocylix. It is found all down the east coast of New Zealand around the low water mark amongst seaweed, on rocky coastlines. Its length is up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in).[1] This species was originally described as Cyclopterus littoreus in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster,[2] John C. Briggs subsequently placed it in the monotypic genus Haplocylix.[3] Its closest relative appears to be the Caribbean deepwater clingfish Gymnoscyphus ascitus.[4]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Haplocylix littoreus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "'Cyclopterus littoreus". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?spid=13381.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Haplocylix". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=6603.
- ↑ "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 7 February 2019. https://www.etyfish.org/gobiesociformes/. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q2340250 entry
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