| Notoclinops | |
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| Blue-eyed triplefin, Notoclinops segmentatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Tripterygiidae |
| Subfamily: | Tripterygiinae |
| Genus: | Notoclinops Whitley, 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Tripterygion segmentatum McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923[1] | |
| Species | |
| See text. | |
Notoclinops is the name of a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.
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]
- Blue dot triplefin, Notoclinops caerulepunctus Hardy, 1989
- Blue-eyed triplefin, Notoclinops segmentatus (McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)
- Yaldwyn's triplefin, Notoclinops yaldwyni Hardy, 1987
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Notoclinops". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Notocliops Species of 'Notocliops' in FishBase. April 2019 version.