Species Heteroclinus kuiteri Hoese & Rennis, 2006
Kuiters Weedfish
- Heteroclinus kuiteri Hoese, D.F. & Rennis, D.S. 2006. Description of a new species of Heteroclinus (Blennoidei: Clinidae) from southern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(1): 21-24 [21, figs 1-3].
Type data:
Holotype AM I.19777-009, Portsea Pier, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
Paratype(s) AM I.19775-002; AM I.19776-005; AM I.19777-006; AM I.19921-009; AM I.24050-001; AM I.24051-001; AM I.24218-001; NMV A.2604; NMV A.2606-2608; NMV A.3577; NMV A.3579; NMV A.498; WAM P.25767-010; WAM P.26599-004; ZMUC uncatalogued.
Miscellaneous Literature Names
Distribution
States
South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Wester Port Bay, VIC to Port Lincoln SA and Cosy Corner, near Albany and Sandy Hook Island off Esperance, WA.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine, rock reef.
Extra Ecological Information
5–13 m.
General References
Hoese, D.F., Gomon, M.F. & Rennis, D.S. 2008. Family Clinidae. pp. 696-722 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [708]
Hutchins, J.B. 1994. A survey of the nearshore reef fish fauna of Western Australia's west and south coasts — The Leeuwin Province. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 46: 1-66 figs 1-6 (as Heteroclinus species 2)
Rennis, D., Hoese, D.F. & Gomon, M.F. 1994. Family Clinidae. pp. 741-775, figs 650-684B in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [746, fig. 652] (as Heteroclinus sp. 1)
History of changes
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