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Animals KeaKentish plover

Kelpfish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see blenny.
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Blenny - common name of various species of extremely numerous small fishes belonging to the families Blenniidae (combtooth blennies) and Nototheniidae (Antarctic blennies).

 


Giant kelpfish stick close to giant kelp and other seaweeds, where their blade-shaped bodies help them blend in.

Kelpfish, Chironemus marmoratus (Günther, 1860)
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Most are small fish, measuring as little as 5 cm, but Heterostichus rostratus, or giant kelpfish, can reach 60 cm (Click here to see a fish diagram). (Böhlke and Chaplin, 1994; Helfman, et al.

croakers, drums, threadfins, goatfishes, sweepers, beachsalmon, bathyclupeids, archerfishes, galjoens, sea chubs, jutjaws, sicklefishes, moonies, butterflyfishes, angelfishes, oldwives, armorheads, leaffishes, knifejaws, hawkfishes, kelpfishes, ...

See also: Diver, Parrot, Wrasse, Butterflyfish, Perch

Animals KeaKentish plover

 
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