Fringehead
Fringehead may refer to any of several members of the Neoclinus genus of fishes: * Sarcastic fringehead, ''Neoclinus blanchardi'' * Yellowfin fringehead, ''Neoclinus stephensae'' * Onespot fringehead, ''Neoclinus uninotatus ''Neoclinus uninotatus'', the Onespot fringehead, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in the eastern Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. This species feeds primarily on benthic crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form ...

Sarcastic Fringehead
The sarcastic fringehead (''Neoclinus blanchardi'') is a small but very hardy saltwater fish that has a large mouth and aggressive territorial behavior, for which it has been given its common name. When two fringeheads have a territorial battle, they wrestle by pressing their distended mouths against each other, as if they were kissing. This allows them to determine which is the larger fish, which establishes dominance. They can be up to long, elegant and slender, and are mostly scaleless with great pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins. The swimming movements of these fish are complicated. Their swimming consists of short, fast, dart-like movements. They are generally brown in color. Sarcastic fringeheads are a species of tube blenny and tend to hide inside shells or crevices, though some have been found living in man-made objects, such as a soda can. After the female spawns under a rock or in clam burrows, the male guards the eggs. During squid spawning season, they eat lar ...
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Neoclinus
''Neoclinus'' is a genus of chaenopsid blennies found in the North Pacific ocean along the coasts of California, Baja California, Japan, Korea and Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort .... Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: * '' Neoclinus blanchardi'' Girard, 1858 (Sarcastic fringehead) * '' Neoclinus bryope'' ( D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1902) * '' Neoclinus chihiroe'' Fukao, 1987 * '' Neoclinus lacunicola'' Fukao, 1980 * '' Neoclinus monogrammus'' Murase, Aizawa & Sunobe, 2010 Murase, A., Aizawa, M. & Sunobe, T. (2010): Two New Chaenopsid Fishes, ''Neoclinus monogrammus'' and ''Neoclinus nudiceps'' (Teleostei: Perciformes: Blennioidei), from Japan. ''Species Diversity, 15 (2): 57-70.'' * '' Neoclinus nudiceps'' Murase, Aizawa ...
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Neoclinus Stephensae
''Neoclinus stephensae'', the Yellowfin fringehead, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in the eastern Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. The specific name honours the collector of the type, the British-American conchologist Kate Stephens (ca. 1853–1954) who was Curator of Mollusks and Marine Invertebrates at San Diego Natural History Museum The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and th ... and who was over 100 years old at the time the species was described. References * Hubbs, Clark, 1953 (26 Feb.) ''Revision and systematic position of the blenniid fishes of the genus Neoclinus.'' Copeia 1953 (no. 1): 11–23. stephensae Fish described in 1953 Taxa named by Clark Hubbs {{Chaenopsidae-stub ...
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