{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Gibbonsia metzi.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=''Gibbonsia metzi'' |volume=2014 |article-number=e.T178917A1547499 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178917A1547499.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Gibbonsia metzi | authority = C. L. Hubbs, 1927 }}
'''''Gibbonsia metzi''''', the '''striped kelpfish''', is a species of clinid native to the Pacific coast of North America from British Columbia, Canada, to Baja California, Mexico. It can be found in tide pools and in kelp beds down to a depth of about {{convert|9|m|ft}}. This species can reach a maximum length of {{convert|24|cm|in}} TL. The can also be found in the aquarium trade.<ref>{{FishBase |genus= Gibbonsia|species= metzi| month = April | year = 2013}}</ref> This species feeds primarily on polychaete worms.<ref>[http://www.fishbase.org/TrophicEco/FoodItemsList.php?vstockcode=3921&genus=Gibbonsia&species=metzi Food items for ''Gibbonsia metzi''] at www.fishbase.org.</ref> The specific name honours the geneticist Charles W. Metz (1889-1975) of the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes3/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE | work = ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 10 November 2018 | access-date = 21 April 2019}}</ref>
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metzi Category:Fish described in 1927 Category:Taxa named by Carl Leavitt Hubbs
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