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| Clingfishes Temporal range: 23.03-0 Ma
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| Aspasmichthys ciconiae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Ovalentaria |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Suborder: | Gobiesocoidei |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae Bleeker, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Gobiesox cephalus Lacépède, 1800
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Clingfishes are ray-finned fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Blenniiformes.[1] These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species live in deeper seas or fresh water. Most species shelter in shallow reefs or seagrass beds, clinging to rocks, algae and seagrass leaves with their sucking disc, a structure on their chest.[2][3]
They are generally too small to be of interest to fisheries, although the relatively large Sicyases sanguineus regularly is caught as a food fish,[4] and some of the other species occasionally appear in the marine aquarium trade.[2]
- ^ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification | California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org.
- ^ a b Bray, Dianne. "Family GOBIESOCIDAE". Fishes of Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Donaldson, T.J. (2004). "Gobiesocoidei (Clingfishes And Singleslits)". encyclopedia.com. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Paine, R.T.; A.R. Palmer (1978). "Sicyases sanguineus: a Unique Trophic Generalist from the Chilean Intertidal Zone". Copeia. 1978 (1): 75–81. doi:10.2307/1443824. JSTOR 1443824.