Biology:Merret's snailfish
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| Merret's snailfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Careproctus |
| Species: | C. merretti
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| Binomial name | |
| Careproctus merretti (Andriashev & Chernova, 1988)
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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
- ↑ 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". https://www.iucnredlist.org/en.
- ↑ "ADW: Careproctus merretti: CLASSIFICATION". https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Careproctus_merretti/classification/.
- ↑ Quéro, Jean-Claude (September 8, 2003). Guide des poissons de l'Atlantique européen. Delachaux et Niestlé. ISBN 9782603012710. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWcWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Careproctus+merretti%22.
- ↑ "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. September 8, 2005. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zw8kAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Careproctus+merretti%22.
- ↑ "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. September 8, 1989. https://books.google.com/books?id=yNDzAAAAMAAJ&q=Careproctus+merretti++Nigel+R.+Merrett.
- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Careproctus merretti Andriashev & Chernova, 1988". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127210#attributes.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Careproctus merretti, Merret's snailfish". https://www.fishbase.se/summary/57255.
- ↑ "FishBase Glossary". https://www.fishbase.de/glossary/Glossary.php?q=hypural+plate.
- ↑ Priede, I. G. (August 10, 2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107083820. https://books.google.com/books?id=nAAtDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Careproctus+merretti%22&pg=PA352.
Wikidata ☰ Q3756781 entry
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