Springeratus Caledonicus
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''Springeratus caledonicus'', the Caledonian weedfish, is a species 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 Hemi ...
found around
New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
and
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
. This species placement in the family Clinidae has been questioned with some feeling that it is best placed in the family
Microdesmidae The Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes, were a Family (biology), family of goby-like fishes in the order Gobiiformes, more recent workers have placed this taxon within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic s ...
.California Academy of Sciences, Catalog of Fishes
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caledonicus Fish described in 1874 {{Clinidae-stub