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The Giant Kelpfish is a species of clinid, native to the west coast of North America. It is found most commonly in the warmer waters of Point Conception, California, to southern Baja California . It inhabits rocky areas with dense canopies of microalga, giant kelp and other large seaweeds .
The family contains about 86 species in 20 genera, the 60-cm-long giant kelpfish (Heterostichus rostratus) being the largest; most are far smaller. With small cycloid scales, clinoid blennies may have a deep or slender build; some members of the family bear the name "snake blenny" and "eel blenny" for this reason. Dorsal spines outnumber soft ...
Macrocystis is a monospecific genus; the sole species is M. pyrifera.Some individuals are so huge that the thallus may grow to up to 60 m (200 ft). [6] The stipes arise from a holdfast and branch three or four times from near the base.
Kelpfish may refer to: Chironemus, the only genus in the family Chironemidae, commonly referred to as kelpfishes Large kelpfish (Chironemus marmoratus), commonly known as the kelpfish; Gibbonsia, a genus of blennies from the family Clinidae, its members having the common name kelpfish Gibbonsia elegans, the spotted kelpfish
Scientific classification; ... τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types ... - clinids, including the giant kelpfish; ...
The large kelpfish (Chironemus marmoratus), the Eastern kelpfish, hiwihiwi, surgefish or kelpfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a kelpfish belonging to the family Chironemidae. It is found in southern Australia , and off the North Island of New Zealand , at depths down to 30 m.
Just one example is the giant bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana, which have evolved to change blade shape in order to increase drag in water and interception of light when exposed to certain environments. Bull kelp are not unique in this adaptation; many kelp species have evolved a genetic plasticity for blade shapes for different water flow ...
The Kelpfishes were placed in the monogeneric family Chironemidae in 1862 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill. [1] The genus had been described in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier when he had described the type species Chironemus georgianus. [2]