Biology:Neocaristius heemstrai
| Neocaristius heemstrai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Caristiidae |
| Genus: | Neocaristius D. E. Stevenson & Kenaley, 2011 |
| Species: | N. heemstrai
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| Binomial name | |
| Neocaristius heemstrai Trunov, E. I. Kukuev & Parin, 2006
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| Synonyms | |
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Paracaristius heemstrai Trunov, Kukuev & Parin, 2006 | |
Neocaristius heemstrai is a species of fish in the family Caristiidae, the manefishes.[1] It is native to the oceans of the southern hemisphere where it is known to occur at depths of from 420 to 1,360 metres (1,380 to 4,460 ft). This species grows to a length of 11.8 centimetres (4.6 in) SL.[2]
This fish was first described in 2006 and was moved to a monotypic genus of its own, Neocaristius, in 2011.[3]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Phillip C. Heemstra (1941-2019), of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology in Grahamstown, South Africa, for his contributions to the studies of marine fishes, and in 1986 was the first to draw attention to this species.[4]
References
- ↑ Trunov, I.A., Kukuev, E.I. & Parin, N.V. Materials for the revision of the family Caristiidae (Perciformes): 1. Description of Paracaristius heemstrai gen. et sp. nov.. J. Ichthyol. 46, 441–446 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294520606004X
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Neocaristius heemstrai" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ↑ Stevenson, D. E. and C. P. Kenaley. (2011). Revision of the manefish genus Paracaristius (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Copeia 2011(3) 385-99.
- ↑ "Order SCOMBRIFORMES: Families AMARSIPIDAE, CENTROLOPHIDAE, NOMEIDAE, ARIOMMATIDAE, TETRAGONURIDAE, STROMATEIDAE, ARRIPIDAE, BRAMIDAE, CARISTIIDAE, CHIASMODONTIDAE, POMATOMIDAE and SCOMBROPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/scombriformes2/.
Wikidata ☰ Q5692961 entry
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