family Pholidae

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family Pholidae - a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea

family Pholididae, Pholidae

fish family - any of various families of fish

Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea - blennies; butterfishes; gunnels

bracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

genus Pholis, Pholis - type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels

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The penpoint gunnel (Apodichthys flavidus) is a member of the perciform family Pholidae. Pholids, commonly referred to as gunnels, are eel-like fishes that inhabit the rocky intertidal and subtidal regions of the northern oceans and are often associated with macroalgae, such as Fucus spp.

Yatsu's (1985) revision of the family Pholidae placed U.

1981 A revision of the gunnel family Pholidae (Pisces, Blennioidei).

Development of larval and early juvenile penpoint gunnel (Apodichthys flavidus) (family: Pholidae)