# Notoclinops

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox 
| image = Notoclinops segmentatus (Blue-eyed triplefin).jpg
| image_caption = [Blue-eyed triplefin](/source/Blue-eyed_triplefin), ''Notoclinops segmentatus''
| taxon = Notoclinops
| authority = [Whitley](/source/Gilbert_Percy_Whitley), 1930
| type_species = ''Tripterygion segmentatum''
| type_species_authority = [McCulloch](/source/Allan_Riverstone_McCulloch) & [Phillipps](/source/William_J._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 [triplefin](/source/Threefin_blenny)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Tripterygiidae](/source/Tripterygiidae) from [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand).

==Etymology==
The [generic name](/source/genus) ''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](/source/lateral_line) and four spines in first [dorsal fin](/source/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](/source/Blue_dot_triplefin), ''[Notoclinops caerulepunctus](/source/Notoclinops_caerulepunctus)'' <small>Hardy, 1989</small>
* [Blue-eyed triplefin](/source/Blue-eyed_triplefin), ''[Notoclinops segmentatus](/source/Notoclinops_segmentatus)'' <small>(McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)</small>
* [Yaldwyn's triplefin](/source/Yaldwyn's_triplefin), ''[Notoclinops yaldwyni](/source/Notoclinops_yaldwyni)'' <small>[Hardy](/source/Graham_Stuart_Hardy), 1987</small>

==References==
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Category:Notoclinops
Category:Tripterygiidae

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