Neoclinus Chihiroe
''Neoclinus chihiroe'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ..., in the northwest Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of SL. Etymology The specific name "''chihiroe''" refers to Chihiro Okazaki, the wife of Dr. Toshio Okazaki, whom Fukao credits with leading to the discovery of ''Neoclinus chihiroe'' sister taxon '' N. okazakii''. References * Fukao, R., 1987 (10 Dec.''Fishes of Neoclinus bryope species complex from Shirahama, Japan, with description of two new species.''Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 34 (no. 3): 291–308. chihiroe Fish described in 1987 {{Chaenopsidae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chaenopsidae
The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all percomorph marine fish in the order Blenniiformes. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North to South America. Members are also present in waters off Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Fourteen genera and 90 species are represented, the largest being the sarcastic fringehead, ''Neoclinus blanchardi'', at in length; most are much smaller, and the group includes perhaps the smallest of all vertebrates, ''Acanthemblemaria paula'', measuring just long as an adult. With highly compressed bodies, some may be so elongated as to appear eel-like; chaenopsids are scaleless and lack lateral lines. Their heads are rough and may be armed with spines. There may be 17 to 28 spines in the dorsal fin, with two in the anal fin. The habit of taking up home in abandoned worm tubes has earned some species in this family the name "tube-blenny". Many will also inhabit empty clam shells, which also ser ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Earth's entire land area combined .Pacific Ocean . '' Britannica Concise.'' 2008: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The centers of both the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fish Measurement
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal (tail) fin. * Total length (TL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body. Standard length measurements are used with Teleostei (most bony fish), while total length measurements are used with Myxini ( hagfish), Petromyzontiformes ( lampreys), and (usually) Elasmobranchii (shark Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish chara ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neoclinus Okazakii
''Neoclinus okazakii'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in rocky reefs around Japan, in the northwestern Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ... ocean. Males of this species can reach a maximum length of SL, while females can reach a maximum length of . Etymology The specific name "''okazakii''" refers to Dr. Toshio Okazaki, who is credited with leading to the identification of ''Neoclinus okazakii'' as a distinct species. References * Fukao, R., 1987 (10 Dec.''Fishes of Neoclinus bryope species complex from Shirahama, Japan, with description of two new species.''Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 34 (no. 3): 291–308. okazakii Fish described in 1987 {{Chaenopsidae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neoclinus
''Neoclinus'' is a genus of chaenopsid blennies found in the North Pacific ocean along the coasts of California, Baja California, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: * '' Neoclinus blanchardi'' Girard, 1858 (Sarcastic fringehead) * '' Neoclinus bryope'' ( D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1902) * '' Neoclinus chihiroe'' Fukao, 1987 * '' Neoclinus lacunicola'' Fukao, 1980 * ''Neoclinus monogrammus'' Murase, Aizawa & Sunobe, 2010 Murase, A., Aizawa, M. & Sunobe, T. (2010): Two New Chaenopsid Fishes, ''Neoclinus monogrammus'' and ''Neoclinus nudiceps'' (Teleostei: Perciformes: Blennioidei), from Japan. ''Species Diversity, 15 (2): 57-70.'' * ''Neoclinus nudiceps ''Neoclinus nudiceps'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Japan in the north-west Pacific Ocean where it is inhabits cavities within rocky areas. References nudiceps Fish described in 2010 {{Chaenopsidae-stub ...'' Murase, Aizawa & Sunobe, 2010 * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |