''Cristiceps'' is a genus of
clinid
Clinidae is a family of marine fish in the order Blenniiformes within the series Ovalentaria, part of the Percomorpha . Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern He ...
s native to the
Indo-Pacific
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In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...
waters around
Australia and
New Zealand
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.
Species
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Cristiceps argyropleura
''Cristiceps argyropleura'', the silver-sided weedfish, is a species of clinid found around southern Australia
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Kner, 1865 (Silver-sided weedfish)
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Cristiceps aurantiacus
''Cristiceps aurantiacus'' (golden weedfish or yellow crested weedfish) is a species of clinid found around New South Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It lives in tide pools and the subtidal zone to a depth of . Its diet consists of crustacea ...
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Castelnau, 1879 (Golden weedfish)
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Cristiceps australis
''Cristiceps australis'', the crested weedfish, is a species of clinid found around southern Australia in the subtidal zone from low water to depths of about preferring areas with plentiful seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousa ...
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Valenciennes
Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...
, 1836 (Crested weedfish)
References
Clinidae
Ray-finned fish genera
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