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Merret's snailfish
Species of ray-finned fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish,[2] is a species of fish in the family Liparidae.[3][4]
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Etymology
It is named for the British ichthyologist Nigel Merrett (born 1940).[5]
Description
Merret's snailfish is silvery-pink in colour, with a black peritoneum. Its maximum length is 20.5 centimetres (8.1 in).[6] It has 69 vertebrae. Its hypural plate (expanded ends of the hypurals that form a wide, fan-like plate onto which the caudal fin rays are attached) is single, and there are no epurals.[7][8]
Habitat
Merret's snailfish lives in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain; it is bathydemersal and non-migratory, living at depths of up to 3,990 m (13,090 ft).[7][9]
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