Holcomycteronus profundissimus
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| Holcomycteronus profundissimus (Roule, 1913)
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Holcomycteronus profundissimus (Danish: Grimaldis slangekvabbe;[1]; Finnish: Grimaldikala;[2] Italian: Pesce di Grimaldi[3]) is a species of deep-sea fish in the cusk-eel family.
History
The first specimen was found in Atlantic waters in August 1901 at a depth of 6,035 m (19,800 ft) in the abyssal zone SW of the Cape Verde Islands. It was caught during an oceanographic expedition by Princess Alice of Monaco using a fish trap designed by her husband Prince Albert I.[4] The genus to which this species belongs was initially named Grimaldichthys after the ruling family of Monaco.[5]
Other specimens of this fish were recorded later in the Pacific and Indian oceans and for many decades it was thought to be the fish living at the greatest depth in the world until the species Abyssobrotula galatheae —one specimen of which was found at a depth of over 8,000 m (26,000 ft)— was described in 1977.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Fishbase - Common name of Holcomycteronus profundissimus
- ^ Ophidiidae: Ophidiinae
- ^ Pésce di Grimaldi - Sapere.it
- ^ Oceanographic Museum - the 1901 Trawl
- ^ "Plongée dans le Musée océanographique de Monaco - Image 7 sur 17". 20minutes.fr. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
- ^ Keith Rodney Benson, Philip F. Rehbock eds. Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond, p. 243
External links
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Holcomycteronus profundissimus" in FishBase. August 2017 version.
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- HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHONDRICHTHYAN COLLECTION OF THE OCEANOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF MONACO
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