Heteroclinus nasutus
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Heteroclinus nasutus, known commonly as the Large-nose weedfish in Australia
, is a species of clinid
in the genus Heteroclinus
. It is a subtropical blenny found from Australia to the United States
, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
. It was named by A. Günther in 1861, originally under the name Cristiceps nasutus and later under Petraites nasutus, and can reach a maximum length of 9 centimetres.
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 from Australia to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
. It was named by A. Günther in 1861, originally under the name Cristiceps nasutus and later under Petraites nasutus, and can reach a maximum length of 9 centimetres.