Harriotta
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Harriotta raleighana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | Rhinochimaeridae |
| Genus: | Harriotta Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895 |
Harriotta is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.[1]
The name honours Thomas Harriot (c.1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history in 1588.[2]
Some common names for species in the genus include rabbitfish, spookfish and chimaera.
Distribution
Harriotta species can be found in the deep waters of continental slopes around 380 to 2,600 m deep in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It is also known to be found in the Indian Ocean off of southern Australia. They are also common in the northern Atlantic, northwest Pacific, and southwest Pacific Oceans.
It contains these species:
- Harriotta haeckeli Karrer, 1972 (smallspine spookfish)
- †Harriotta lehmani Werdelin, 1986
- , 1895 (narrownose chimaera)
- †Harriotta gosseleti (Winkler, 1880) Belgium, Oligocene (Rupelian)[3]
See also
- List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References
- ^ "Harriotta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Harriotta raleighana" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ISSN 0272-4634.