Neocaristius heemstrai is a species of fish in the family Caristiidae, the manefishes.[1] It is native to the oceans of the southern hemisphere where it is known to occur at depths of from 420 to 1,360 metres (1,380 to 4,460 ft). This species grows to a length of 11.8 centimetres (4.6 in) SL.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Caristiidae |
| Genus: | Neocaristius D. E. Stevenson & Kenaley, 2011 |
| Species: | N. heemstrai
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| Neocaristius heemstrai | |
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Paracaristius heemstrai Trunov, Kukuev & Parin, 2006 | |
This fish was first described in 2006 and was moved to a monotypic genus of its own, Neocaristius, in 2011.[3]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of Phillip C. Heemstra (1941-2019), of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology in Grahamstown, South Africa, for his contributions to the studies of marine fishes, and in 1986 was the first to draw attention to this species.[4]
References
edit- ^ Trunov, I.A., Kukuev, E.I. & Parin, N.V. Materials for the revision of the family Caristiidae (Perciformes): 1. Description of Paracaristius heemstrai gen. et sp. nov.. J. Ichthyol. 46, 441–446 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294520606004X
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Neocaristius heemstrai". FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ Stevenson, D. E. and C. P. Kenaley. (2011). Revision of the manefish genus Paracaristius (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Copeia 2011(3) 385-99.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SCOMBRIFORMES: Families AMARSIPIDAE, CENTROLOPHIDAE, NOMEIDAE, ARIOMMATIDAE, TETRAGONURIDAE, STROMATEIDAE, ARRIPIDAE, BRAMIDAE, CARISTIIDAE, CHIASMODONTIDAE, POMATOMIDAE and SCOMBROPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
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