Neocaristius heemstrai

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]

Neocaristius heemstrai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Caristiidae
Genus:	Neocaristius D. E. Stevenson & Kenaley, 2011
Species:	N. heemstrai
Binomial name
Neocaristius heemstrai Trunov, E. I. Kukuev & Parin, 2006
Synonyms
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

The 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]