Olive rockfish

Olive rockfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Plesiopidae
Genus: Acanthoclinus
Species: A. fuscus
Binomial name
Acanthoclinus fuscus
Jenyns, 1842

The olive rockfish, Acanthoclinus fuscus, is a longfin of the family Plesiopidae. Found only in New Zealand's intertidal zone and in rock pools at low tide, the fish grow to a length of up to 30 cm (12 in).

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