Clinus exasperatus

Clinus exasperatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Clinidae
Genus:	Clinus
Species:	C. exasperatus
Binomial name
	Clinus exasperatus; Holleman, van der Heyden & Zsilavecz, 2012[1]

Clinus exasperatus is a species of clinid which is known from only two specimens collected in the sea from among kelp, in Betty's Bay in South Africa. The specific name refers to Sophie van der Heyden's exasperation at her failure to find a second specimen.[2]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Clinus exesperatus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
Wouter Holleman; Sophie van der Heyden & Guido Zsilavecz (2012). "Delineating the fishes of the Clinus superciliosus species complex in southern African waters (Blennioidei: Clinidae: Clinini), with the validation of Clinus arborescens Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908 and Clinus ornatus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908, and with descriptions of two new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (4): 827–853. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00865.x.

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[1] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Clinus exesperatus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.

[2] Wouter Holleman; Sophie van der Heyden & Guido Zsilavecz (2012). "Delineating the fishes of the Clinus superciliosus species complex in southern African waters (Blennioidei: Clinidae: Clinini), with the validation of Clinus arborescens Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908 and Clinus ornatus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908, and with descriptions of two new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (4): 827–853. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00865.x.