Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Ophidiidae.[1][2]
| Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi | |
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| Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
Description
editAttaining a maximum length of 193 cm (76 in) in males, this species is the largest among the cusk-eels.[3] This species is characterized by its elongate body, distinctive series of spines on the preopercle and opercle,[3] and lack of anterior dorsal fin spines.[4]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of Yuri Nikolayevich Shcherbachev of the Institute of Oceanology, in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, who was a colleague, a shipmate and the “master of deepsea ichthyology”.[5]
References
edit- ^ "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".
- ^ a b Cohen, Daniel M.; Rohr, Bennie A. (May 1993). "Description of a Giant Circumglobal Lamprogrammus Species (Pisces: Ophidiidae)". Copeia. 2 (2): 470–475. doi:10.2307/1447147. JSTOR 1447147 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Fukui, Atsushi; Kuroda, Hiroyuki (24 February 2007). "Larvae of Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from the western North Pacific Ocean". Ichthyological Research. 54 (1). Springer Science+Business Media: 74–80. doi:10.1007/s10228-006-0381-z. 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.
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