Clinus musaicus explained

Clinus musaicus, the mosaic klipfish, is a species of bony fish from the family Clinidae, the kelp blennies. It is endemic to the waters off the Western Cape in South Africa where it occurs off the Cape Peninsula in False Bay on the Peninsula's eastern coast and the Atlantic Ocean off its western coast. All the specimens were collected from areas of flat, sandy substrates with scattered shell fragments.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Wouter Holleman . Sophie van der Heyden . Guido Zsilavecz . amp . 2012 . Delineating the fishes of the Clinus superciliosus species complex in southern African waters (Blennioidei: Clinidae: Clinini), with the validation of Clinus arborescens Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908 and Clinus ornatus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908, and with descriptions of two new species . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 166 . 4 . 827–853. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00865.x . free .

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