Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi

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Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Genus: Lamprogrammus
Species:
L. shcherbachevi
Binomial name
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Cohen & Rohr, 1993

Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family

Ophidiidae.[1][2]

Description

Attaining a maximum length of 193 cm (76 in) in males, this species is the largest among the cusk-eels.

opercle,[3] and lack of anterior dorsal fin spines.[4]

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

  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi Cohen & Rohr, 1993". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  2. ^ Torres, Armi G.; Reyes, Rodolfo B. "Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, Scaleline cusk".
  3. ^
    JSTOR 1447147
    – via JSTOR.
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  5. ^ 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.