Merret's snailfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Liparidae
Genus: Careproctus
Species:
C. merretti
Binomial name
Careproctus merretti
Andriashev & Chernova, 1988

Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish,[2] is a species of fish in the family Liparidae.[3][4]

Etymology

It is named for the British ichthyologist Nigel Merrett (born 1940).[5]

Description

Merret's snailfish is silvery-pink in colour, with a black peritoneum. Its maximum length is 20.5 centimetres (8.1 in).[6] 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.[7][8]

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).[7][9]

References

  1. Assessor), Ç Keskin (Mediterranean Marine Fish; Juan Gil Herrera (Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz); Hcmr), Costas Papaconstantinou (Hellenic Centre of Marine Research; Luis Gil de Sola (Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga (April 18, 2014). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Careproctus merretti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
  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 9782603012710 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 9781107083820 via Google Books.


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