Monday, 29 October 2012

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

The kelpfishes are a family of perciform fishes, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand. The name of the family, "Chironemidae", is from Greek cheir meaning "hands" and nema meaning "thread". There are six species in two genera: Genus Chironemus, Chironemus bicornis (Steindachner, 1898) Chironemus delfini (Porter, 1914) Tasselled kelpfish, Chironemus georgianus Cuvier, 1829 Large kelpfish, Chironemus marmoratus Günther, 1860 Chironemus microlepis Waite, 1916 Genus Threpterius, Silver spot, Threpterius maculosus Richardson, 1850.

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish

Kelpfish


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