Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Ophidiiformes |
Family: | Ophidiidae |
Genus: | Lamprogrammus |
Species: | L. shcherbachevi |
Binomial name | |
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi | |
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Ophidiidae. [1] [2]
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]
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]