The New Zealand topknot, ''Notoclinus fenestratus'', is a

triplefin Threefin or triplefin blennies are blenniiforms, small percomorph marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the family contains about 150 species in 30 genera. Th ...

of the genus ''

Notoclinus ''Notoclinus'' is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae. Species * Brown topknot, '' Notoclinus compressus'' ( Hutton, 1872) * New Zealand topknot The New Zealand topknot, ''Notoclinus fenestratus'', is a triplefin of the genus ...

'', found around the North Island of

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

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 o ...

areas of broken rock and brown seaweed.

References

* * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) Notoclinus Endemic marine fish of New Zealand Fish described in 1801 {{Blenniiformes-stub