Kelpfish

The kelpfishes are a family of perciform fishes, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand.

The name of the family, "Chironemidae", is from Greek cheir meaning "hands" and nema meaning "thread".

There are six species in two genera:

• Genus Chironemus
  • Chironemus bicornis (Steindachner, 1898)
  • Chironemus delfini (Porter, 1914)
  • Tasselled kelpfish, Chironemus georgianus Cuvier, 1829
  • Large kelpfish, Chironemus marmoratus Günther, 1860
  • Chironemus microlepis Waite, 1916
• Genus Threpterius
  • Silver spot, Threpterius maculosus Richardson, 1850

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Chironemidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.