Matanui

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Blenniimorphae
Ordo: Blenniiformes
Subordo: Blennioidei

Familia: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Matanui
Species: M. bathytaton – M. profundum
Name

Matanui Jawad & Clements, 2004
References

Matanui species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 10/2023.
Jawad, L.A.; Clements, K.D. 2004: Matanui, a new genus of deepwater triplefin fishes (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 34: 81–103.

Matanui is a genus of triplefin blennies (family Tripterygiidae), they are endemic to New Zealand.[2]
Species

Chatham deep-water triplefin, Matanui bathytaton (Hardy, 1989)
Deepwater triplefin, Matanui profundum (Fricke & Roberts, 1994)

Etymology

The name Matanui is derived from the Māori words mata meaning "eye" and nui meaning "large", a reference to its large eyes.[3]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Matanui". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Matanui in FishBase. -April 2019 version.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 May 2019.