Notoclinops

<i>Notoclinops</i>

Notoclinops

Genus of fishes

Notoclinops is the name of a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.

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Etymology

The generic name Notoclinops refers to the superficial resemblance of the species in Notoclinops to the distantly related genus Notoclinus the two sharing a head lacking in scales, a broken lateral line and four spines in first dorsal fin.[2]

Species

Three species are currently recognised within Notoclinops;[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Notoclinops". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  2. [2]
    Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Notocliops Species of 'Notocliops' in FishBase. April 2019 version.


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