Blackchin dwarf snailfish articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Diagnostic Description

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No coronal pore, 6 preoperculo-mandibular pores, small eye (18% HL), gill slit 1.6 eye diameter, short mouth (cleft reaching to below anterior margin of eye). Caudal part of body unpigmented, skin on chin and lower jaw black.

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Morphology

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 3941; Vertebrae: 47

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Psednos barnardi

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Psednos barnardi, the blackchin dwarf snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.^[1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 3.4 cm (1.3 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887-1964), of the South African Museum, who was the one who proposed the genus Psednos in 1927.^[3]

References

^ 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.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Psednos barnardi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
^ 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.