Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi

Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Ophidiiformes
Family:	Ophidiidae
Genus:	Lamprogrammus
Species:	L. shcherbachevi
Binomial name
Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi Cohen & Rohr, 1993

Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Ophidiidae.^[1][2]

Description

Attaining 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

The 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

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi Cohen & Rohr, 1993". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
2. Torres, Armi G.; Reyes, Rodolfo B. "Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, Scaleline cusk".
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.