Plesiopidae

Little rockfish

Acanthoclinus rua

New Zealand rock dwellers guarding eggs down to eighty meters

• Temperate
• Island endemic
• Southern Hemisphere
• Island endemic species
• Local endemic species
• Restricted distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Elongated
• Small
• Temperate fish

Little rockfish is a marine fish of New Zealand rocks down to about eighty meters. Males stay in reef crevices and guard the developing eggs.