''Heteroclinus johnstoni'', or Johnston's weedfish, is a species of

clinid Clinidae is a family of marine fish in the order Blenniiformes within the series Ovalentaria, part of the Percomorpha . Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemis ...

native to the waters along the around southern

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n coast where it prefers

reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock out ...

s with tall

seaweed Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of '' Rhodophyta'' (red), ''Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ...

growth at depths down to about . This species can reach a maximum length of TL. The

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honours the statistician and scientist Robert Mackenzie Johnston (1843-1918).

References

* Johnston's Weedfish, Heteroclinus johnstoni (Saville-Kent 1886) @ fishesofaustralia.net.au
/small> johnstoni Fish of Victoria (state) Marine fish of Tasmania Fish described in 1886 Taxa named by William Saville-Kent {{Clinidae-stub