Merret's snailfish

Merret's snailfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Liparidae
Genus: Careproctus
Species:
C. merretti
Binomial name
Careproctus merretti

Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish, is a species of fish in the family Liparidae.

Etymology

It is named for the British ichthyologist Nigel Merrett (born 1940).

Description

Merret's snailfish is silvery-pink in colour, with a black peritoneum. Its maximum length is 20.5 centimetres (8.1 in). It has 69 vertebrae. Its hypural plate (expanded ends of the hypurals that form a wide, fan-like plate onto which the caudal fin rays are attached) is single, and there are no epurals.

Habitat

Merret's snailfish lives in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain; it is bathydemersal and non-migratory, living at depths of up to 3,990 m (13,090 ft).

References

  1. ↑ Keskin, Ç.; Herrera, J.; Papaconstantinou, C.; de Sola, L. (2014). "Careproctus merretti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014 e.T18237516A45128580. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T18237516A45128580.en.
  2. ↑ "ADW: Careproctus merretti: CLASSIFICATION". animaldiversity.org.
  3. ↑ Quéro, Jean-Claude (September 8, 2003). Guide des poissons de l'Atlantique européen. Delachaux et Niestlé. ISBN 978-2-603-01271-0 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. September 8, 2005 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. September 8, 1989 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Careproctus merretti Andriashev & Chernova, 1988". www.marinespecies.org.
  7. 1 2 "Careproctus merretti, Merret's snailfish". www.fishbase.se.
  8. ↑ "FishBase Glossary". www.fishbase.de.
  9. ↑ Priede, I. G. (August 10, 2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-08382-0 – via Google Books.