Giant clingfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiesociformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Subfamily: Gobiesocinae
Genus: Haplocylix
Briggs, 1955
Species:
H. littoreus
Binomial name
Haplocylix littoreus
Synonyms

Cyclopterus littoreus Forster, 1801

The giant clingfish (Haplocylix littoreus) is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae, the only species in the genus Haplocylix. It is found all down the east coast of New Zealand around the low water mark amongst seaweed, on rocky coastlines. Its length is up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in).[1] This species was originally described as Cyclopterus littoreus in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster,[2] John C. Briggs subsequently placed it in the monotypic genus Haplocylix.[3] Its closest relative appears to be the Caribbean deepwater clingfish Gymnoscyphus ascitus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Haplocylix littoreus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "'Cyclopterus littoreus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Haplocylix". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 June 2019.


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