The barbed perch (Acanthoclininae) are a group of small, elongated perch relatives that occur in the shallow water of the tropical Indo-Pacific near the coast . A number of species are also endemic to the coasts of New Zealand . Little is known about them and so little is known about them.
Barbed perch reach a length of one to 30 centimeters. They are usually brownish in color and more elongated than most of the other miracle perches , to which they are counted as a subfamily. Their shape is more similar to that of the somewhat more distantly related dwarf perch subfamily Pseudochrominae , the eel-like elongated genus Notograptus is similar to the eel bass (Congrogadidae). They have scaly heads, one to three lateral lines and small, thread-like, throaty ventral fins that have a spiked ray and two soft rays. In the dorsal and anal fin , the hard-rayed areas are much longer than the sections supported by soft rays. The dorsal fin is supported by 17 to 26 fin spines and only two to six soft rays. In the anal fin there are 7 to 16 spines and also two to six soft rays. The German name of the subfamily also refers to the mostly spiky dorsal fin.
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