{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Notoclinops segmentatus (Blue-eyed triplefin).jpg | image_caption = Blue-eyed triplefin, ''Notoclinops segmentatus'' | taxon = Notoclinops | authority = Whitley, 1930 | type_species = ''Tripterygion segmentatum'' | type_species_authority = McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923<ref name= CofF>{{Cof record|genid=7184|title=''Notoclinops''|access-date=29 May 2019}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}

'''''Notoclinops''''' is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.

==Etymology== The generic name ''Notoclinops'' refers to the superficial resemblance of the species in ''Notoclinops'' to the distantly related genus ''Notoclinus'' the two sharing a head lacking in scales, a broken lateral line and four spines in first dorsal fin.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes1/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | accessdate = 29 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}</ref>

==Species== Three species are currently recognised within ''Notoclinops'';<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase genus| genus = ''Notocliops'' | month=April | year = 2019}}</ref>

* Blue dot triplefin, ''Notoclinops caerulepunctus'' <small>Hardy, 1989</small> * Blue-eyed triplefin, ''Notoclinops segmentatus'' <small>(McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)</small> * Yaldwyn's triplefin, ''Notoclinops yaldwyni'' <small>Hardy, 1987</small>

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Category:Notoclinops Category:Tripterygiidae

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