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Neoclinus Nudiceps
''Neoclinus nudiceps'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Japan in the north-west Pacific Ocean where it is inhabits cavities within rocky areas. References nudiceps Fish described in 2010 {{Chaenopsidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaenopsidae
The blenny, blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all percomorpha, percomorph marine fish in the order Blenniiformes. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North America, North to South America. Members are also present in waters off Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Fourteen genera and 90 species are represented, the largest being the sarcastic fringehead, ''Neoclinus blanchardi'', at in length; most are much smaller, and the group includes perhaps the smallest of all vertebrates, ''Acanthemblemaria paula'', measuring just long as an adult. With highly compressed bodies, some may be so elongated as to appear eel-like; chaenopsids are scaleless and lack lateral lines. Their heads are rough and may be armed with spines. There may be 17 to 28 spines in the dorsal fin, with two in the anal fin. The habit of taking up home in abandoned worm tubes has earned some species in this family the name "tube-blenny". Many will also inhabit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |