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Exhibit
See the Clanwilliam rock catfish at Two Oceans Aquarium in this exhibit:
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Marine fish
- Beaked sandfish
- Black musselcracker (poenskop)
- Blue hottentot
- Blue-cheek goby
- Blue-green chromis
- Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
- Clown triggerfish
- Dark shyshark
- Devil firefish (common lionfish)
- Fransmadam
- Galjoen
- Giant kob
- Giant short-tail stingray
- Giant yellowtail (Cape yellowtail)
- Guinea fowl wrasse
- Honeycomb moray eel
- Klipvis
- Knysna seahorse
- Longnose butterflyfish
- Longsnout pipefish
- Madagascar butterflyfish
- Majestic angelfish
- Midas blenny
- Pencilled surgeon
- Puffadder shyshark
- Ragged-tooth shark
- Red stumpnose
- Regal tang (palette surgeon)
- Rocksucker
- Roman
- Sand steenbras
- Semicircle angelfish (koran anglefish)
- Six-bar wrasse
- South African butterflyfish
- Southern mullet
- Spotted unicornfish
- Strepie
- Three-spot angelfish
- Triangular boxfish
- Western clownfish (anemonefish)
- White steenbras
- Cape galaxias
- Clanwilliam redfin
- Clanwilliam rock catfish
- Clanwilliam sandfish
- Clanwilliam yellowfish
- Common carp (alien)
- Sharptooth catfish (alien)
- Smallmouth bass (alien)
- Spotted rock catfish
- Abalone
- Anemones
- Blue jellyfish
- Box jellyfish
- Cape sea urchin
- Common cuttlefish
- Common octopus
- Giant red hermit crab
- Giant spider crab
- Hagfish
- Jellyfish – introduction
- Moon jellyfish
- Nippled sea fan
- Palmate sea fan
- Peacock mantis shrimp
- Red-chested sea cucumber
- Sinuous sea fan
- South Coast rock lobster
- Spiny starfish
- West Coast rock lobster
- African black oystercatcher
- African penguin
- Cape bulbul
- Cape canary
- Cape wagtail
- Common moorhen
- King penguin
- Rockhopper penguin
Clanwilliam rock catfish Austroglanis gilli
This endemic rock catfish grows up to 20cm in length and is mainly nocturnal, spending the daylight hours hiding under rocks in the slow-flowing riffles of Cederberg streams.
It is a predatory species, eating aquatic invertebrates.
