Clinoporus biporosus, the ladder klipfish, is a species of clinid found in subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean around the South African coast. It occurs in the subtidal zone down to a depth of . This species can reach a maximum length of TL. It is currently the only known member of the genus Clinoporus.
Clinoporus biporosus, the ladder klipfish, is a species of clinid found in subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean around the South African coast. It occurs in the subtidal zone down to a depth of . This species can reach a maximum length of TL. It is currently the only known member of the genus Clinoporus.
==Description== Fins: Dorsal fin spines 38 to 41, rays 2 to 3; Anal fin spines 2, rays 27 to 29; Pectoral fin rays 12 to 13; Ventral fin spines 1, rays 3. Vertebrae 17+(32 to 35). Body depth 6.25 to 6.85 in Standard length. Head length 4.5 to 6.25 in Standard length. Eye 2.75 to 4.25 diameters in head length. Caudal peduncle 23 to 26% head length, depth 28.5 to 31% head length.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).