Biology:Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi

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Short description: Species of Actinopterygii

Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Female Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi.jpg
Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Genus: Lamprogrammus
Species:
L. shcherbachevi
Binomial name
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Cohen & Rohr, 1993

Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Ophidiidae.[1][2]

Description

Attaining a maximum length of 193 cm (76 in) in males, this species is the largest among the cusk-eels.[3] This species is characterized by its elongate body, distinctive series of spines on the preopercle and opercle,[3] and lack of anterior dorsal fin spines.[4]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Yuri Nikolayevich Shcherbachev of the Institute of Oceanology, in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, who was a colleague, a shipmate and the “master of deepsea ichthyology”.[5]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2389370 entry