Aetheliparis rossi

Aetheliparis rossi is a species of snailfish only known from the mesopelagic zone in the North Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.[1] This species is found at depths of from 500 to 674 metres (1,640 to 2,211 ft).[2]

Aetheliparis rossi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Liparidae
Genus: Aetheliparis
Species:
A. rossi
Binomial name
Aetheliparis rossi
(Chernova & Stein, 2004)

Description

It is an orange-pink fish around 3.7 centimetres (1.5 in) SL with a very large mouth with a vertical opening. It has a straight spine.

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References

  • Chernova, Natalia V.; Stein, David L. (2004). "A remarkable new species of Psednos (Teleostei: Liparidae) from the western North Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Fishery Bulletin. 102 (2): 245–250.
  1. Stein, D.L. (2012): A Review of the Snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) of New Zealand, Including Descriptions of a New Genus and Sixteen New Species. Zootaxa, 3588: 1–54.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Psednos rossi" in FishBase. December 2012 version.


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