Notoclinops

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: Notoclinops
Species: N. caerulepunctus – N. segmentatus – N. yaldwyni
Name

Notoclinops Whitley, 1930
References

Notoclinops species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Hardy, G.S. 1987: Revision of Notoclinops Whitley, 1930 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae), and description of a new species from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 17: 165–176.
Hardy, G.S. 1989: The 'blue-dot' triplefin; a new species of Notoclinops Whitley, 1930 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 19: 327–332.

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ITIS

Notoclinops is the name of a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.
Etymology

The generic name Notoclinops refers to the superficial resemblance of the species in Notoclinops to the distantly related genus Notoclinus the two sharing a head lacking in scales, a broken lateral line and four spines in first dorsal fin.[2]
Species

Three species are currently recognised within Notoclinops;[3]

Blue dot triplefin, Notoclinops caerulepunctus Hardy, 1989
Blue-eyed triplefin, Notoclinops segmentatus (McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)
Yaldwyn's triplefin, Notoclinops yaldwyni Hardy, 1987

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Notoclinops". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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 29 May 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Notocliops Species of 'Notocliops' in FishBase. April 2019 version.