Gibbonsia elegans
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Gibbonsia elegans, known commonly as the Spotted kelpfish in United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 and the United States
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, 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 Gibbonsia
Gibbonsia
Gibbonsia is a genus of clinids found in the eastern Pacific ocean.-Species:* Spotted kelpfish, Gibbonsia elegans * Gibbonsia evides * Striped kelpfish, Gibbonsia metzi...

. It is a subtropical blenny found in the eastern Pacific Ocean
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. It was named by J.G. Cooper in 1864, and can reach a maximum length of 16 centimetres. Blennies in this species feed primarily off of benthic amphipods, isopods, crabs, mollusks, and worms, and are preyed upon by temperate basses
Moronidae
Temperate Bass is in the Family PercichthyidaeHow to know the freshwater fishes Samuel Eddy, James C. Underhill.Moronidae, also known as the "temperate basses", is a family of perciform fish consisting of 6 freshwater and marine species...

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