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Acanthoclinus
Sign in to saveAcanthoclinus is a genus of roundheads of the family Plesiopidae. They are elongated in shape with large mouths and eyes, and are found in the oceans around New Zealand. The species in the genus include: Acanthoclinus fuscus Jenyns, 1841 (Olive rockfish) Acanthoclinus littoreus (Forster, 1801) (New Zealand rockfish) Acanthoclinus marilynae (Hardy, 1985) (Stout rockfish) Acanthoclinus matti (Hardy, 1985) Acanthoclinus rua (Hardy, 1985) (Little rockfish)
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPlesiopidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Plesiopidae
- Collections
- BPBM, NHMUK, MNHN, USNM, CSIRO, ZMUC
- Recorded in
- New Caledonia, Polynesie, New Zealand, Australia, N/A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Plesiopidae
- Image
- Olive rockfish.jpg
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- taxon name
- Acanthoclinus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Acanthoclinus
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Acanthoclinus is a genus of roundheads of the family Plesiopidae. They are elongated in shape with large mouths and eyes, and are found in the oceans around New Zealand. The species in the genus include: Acanthoclinus fuscus Jenyns, 1841 (Olive rockfish) Acanthoclinus littoreus (Forster, 1801) (New Zealand rockfish) Acanthoclinus marilynae (Hardy, 1985) (Stout rockfish) Acanthoclinus matti (Hardy, 1985) Acanthoclinus rua (Hardy, 1985) (Little rockfish)
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acanthoclinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.