Psednos harteli

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Stein, D.L. |date=2010 |title=Psednos harteli |volume=2010 |page=e.T154887A4659556|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154887A4659556.en |access-date=27 December 2023}}

| taxon = Psednos harteli

| authority = Chernova, 2001

}}

Psednos harteli, also known as Hartel's dwarf snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the north-western Atlantic Ocean.

Chernova, N., 2001. A review of the genus Psednos (Pisces, Liparidae) with description of ten new species from the north Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 155(10):477-507.

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|4.8|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Psednos |species= harteli| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Karsten E. Hartel, a Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at the Harvard University, who loaned specimens and read the manuscript.

{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/perciformes22/ | title = Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family LIPARIDAE | access-date= 27 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}}

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