Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
{{Short description|Species of Actinopterygii}}
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| image = Female Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi.jpg
| image_caption = Female specimen from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
| taxon = Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi
| authority = Cohen & Rohr, 1993
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Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, the scaleline cusk, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Ophidiidae.{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi Cohen & Rohr, 1993|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126673|access-date=2021-05-19|website=www.marinespecies.org}}{{Cite web |last1=Torres |first1=Armi G. |last2=Reyes |first2=Rodolfo B. |title=Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi, Scaleline cusk |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Lamprogrammus-shcherbachevi.html}}
Description
Attaining a maximum length of {{cvt|193|cm}} in males, this species is the largest among the cusk-eels.{{Cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Daniel M. |last2=Rohr |first2=Bennie A. |date=May 1993 |title=Description of a Giant Circumglobal Lamprogrammus Species (Pisces: Ophidiidae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1447147 |journal=Copeia |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=470–475 |doi=10.2307/1447147 |jstor=1447147 |url-access=subscription }} This species is characterized by its elongate body, distinctive series of spines on the preopercle and opercle, and lack of anterior dorsal fin spines.{{Cite journal |last1=Fukui |first1=Atsushi |last2=Kuroda |first2=Hiroyuki |date=24 February 2007 |title=Larvae of Lamprogrammus shcherbachevi (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from the western North Pacific Ocean |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-006-0381-z |journal=Ichthyological Research |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=74–80|doi=10.1007/s10228-006-0381-z |s2cid=37076261 |url-access=subscription }}
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”.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | title = Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE | access-date= 19 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
References
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Category:Taxa named by Daniel Morris Cohen
Category:Taxa named by Bennie A. Rohr
Category:Animals described in 1993
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