Acanthoclinus

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Acanthoclinus
Olive rockfish.jpg
Acanthoclinus fuscus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Plesiopidae
Subfamily: Acanthoclininae
Genus: Acanthoclinus
Jenyns, 1841
Type species
Acanthoclinus fuscus
Jenyns, 1841

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:[1]

  • Acanthoclinus fuscus Jenyns, 1841 (Olive rockfish)
  • Acanthoclinus littoreus (Forster, 1801) (New Zealand rockfish)
  • Acanthoclinus marilynae (, 1985) (Stout rockfish)
  • Acanthoclinus matti (Hardy, 1985)
  • Acanthoclinus rua (Hardy, 1985) (Little rockfish)

References[]

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Acanthoclinus in FishBase. June 2018 version.


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