Psednos harteli, Hartel's dwarf snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. [1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 4.8 cm (1.9 in).[2]
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. [3]
References
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^ 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.
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^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Psednos harteli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
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^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family LIPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
