Heteroclinus fasciatus
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Heteroclinus fasciatus, known commonly as the Banded weedfish in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, is a species of clinid
Clinid
Clinids are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Clinidae. Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere...

 in the genus Heteroclinus
Heteroclinus
Heteroclinus is a genus of clinids found in the western Indo-Pacific.-Species:* Adelaide's weedfish, Heteroclinus adelaidae * Natal weedfish, Heteroclinus antinectes...

. It is a subtropical blenny found around Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, in the western Pacific ocean. It was named by W. Macleay in 1881, originally under the name Cristiceps fasciatus, and can reach a maximum length of 6.5 centimetres.
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