Notoclinops
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Notoclinops segmentatus (Blue-eyed triplefin).jpg
| image_caption = Blue-eyed triplefin, Notoclinops segmentatus
| taxon = Notoclinops
| authority = Whitley, 1930
| type_species = Tripterygion segmentatum
| type_species_authority = McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923{{Cof record|genid=7184|title=Notoclinops|access-date=29 May 2019}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
}}
Notoclinops is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.
Etymology
The generic name Notoclinops refers to the superficial resemblance of the species in Notoclinops to the distantly related genus Notoclinus the two sharing a head lacking in scales, a broken lateral line and four spines in first dorsal fin.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes1/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | accessdate = 29 May 2019 | date = 29 January 2019}}
Species
Three species are currently recognised within Notoclinops;{{FishBase genus| genus = Notocliops | month=April | year = 2019}}
- Blue dot triplefin, Notoclinops caerulepunctus Hardy, 1989
- Blue-eyed triplefin, Notoclinops segmentatus (McCulloch & Phillipps, 1923)
- Yaldwyn's triplefin, Notoclinops yaldwyni Hardy, 1987