Xenopoclinus kochi, known commonly as the Platanna klipfish in South Africa

South Africa

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 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, is a species of clinid

Clinid

Clinids are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Clinidae. Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere...

 in the genus Xenopoclinus

Xenopoclinus

Xenopoclinus is a small genus of clinids found in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. It has two described species.-Species:* Platanna klipfish, Xenopoclinus kochi * Leprous platanna-klipfish, Xenopoclinus leprosus...

. It is a subtropical blenny found around South Africa, in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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. It was named by J.L.B. Smith in 1948, and can reach a maximum length of 10 centimetres. Blennies in this species swim at a maximum depth of 20 metres, and feed primarily off of zoobenthos.