Giant clingfish
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| Genus: | Haplocylix Briggs, 1955
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| Species: | H. littoreus
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| Haplocylix littoreus (J. R. Forster, 1801)
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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).
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Haplocylix littoreus". FishBase. May 2006 version.
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