Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi | |
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Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Ophidiiformes |
Family: | Ophidiidae |
Genus: | Lamprogrammus |
Species: | L. shcherbachevi
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Binomial name | |
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi |
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family
Description
Attaining a maximum length of 193 cm (76 in) in males, this species is the largest among the cusk-eels.
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, who was a colleague, a shipmate and the “master of deepsea ichthyology”.[5]
References
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi Cohen & Rohr, 1993". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
- ^ Torres, Armi G.; Reyes, Rodolfo B. "Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, Scaleline cusk".
- ^ JSTOR 1447147– via JSTOR.
- S2CID 37076261.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 March 2023.