New Zealand rockfish

New Zealand rockfish
New Zealand rockfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Plesiopidae
Genus: Acanthoclinus
Species: A. littoreus
Binomial name
Acanthoclinus littoreus
(Forster, 1801)
Synonyms

Acanthoclinus quadridactylus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Blennius littoreus Forster, 1801
Blennius quadridactylus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Taumakoides littoreus (Forster, 1801)

The New Zealand rockfish, Acanthoclinus littoreus, is a roundhead of the genus Acanthoclinus, found only in New Zealand from shallow depths to 15 m. Their length is between 5 and 15 cm.

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