Ophiclinus antarcticus
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Ophiclinus antarcticus, known commonly as the Adelaide snakeblenny or the Dusky snakeblenny in Australia
, is a species of clinid
in the genus Ophiclinus
. It is a subtropical blenny found around southern Australia, in the eastern Indian Ocean
. It was named by F.L. Castelnau in 1872, and can reach a maximum length of 14 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 Ophiclinus
Ophiclinus
Ophiclinus is a genus of clinids found in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean.-Species:* Adelaide snakeblenny, Ophiclinus antarcticus * Shortfin snakeblenny, Ophiclinus brevipinnis...
. It is a subtropical blenny found around southern Australia, in the eastern Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
. It was named by F.L. Castelnau in 1872, and can reach a maximum length of 14 centimetres.