Striped clingfish
Appearance
Striped clingfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Blenniiformes |
Family: | Gobiesocidae |
Genus: | Trachelochismus |
Species: | T. melobesia
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Binomial name | |
Trachelochismus melobesia Phillipps, 1927
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The striped clingfish (Trachelochismus melobesia) is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae, found all around New Zealand from low water to about 5 m, on rocky coastlines. Its length is between 5 and 10 cm.
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Trachelochismus melobesia". FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8