Clinidae

Sailfin clinid

Myxodes cristatus

Fourteen Point Nine Centimeters Clinid Fish of Southeast Pacific

• Temperate
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• South America
• Small
• Temperate fish

Myxodes cristatus, the sailfin clinid, is a species of clinid native to the Pacific coast of South America from central to southern Chile. The species was first described by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1829.