| Merret's snailfish | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Careproctus |
| Species: | C. merretti |
| Binomial name | |
| Careproctus merretti Andriashev & Chernova, 1988 | |
Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish, [2] is a species of fish in the family Liparidae. [3] [4]
It is named for the British ichthyologist Nigel Merrett (born 1940). [5]
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]
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]
The snailfishes or sea snails, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, a family classified within the order Scorpaeniformes.
Nigel Robert Merrett is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum.
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