Merret's snailfish

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

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

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. "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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