Harriotta

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Harriotta
Harriotta raleighana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: Rhinochimaeridae
Genus: Harriotta
Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895

Harriotta is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.[1]

The name honours Thomas Harriot (c.1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history in 1588.[2]

Some common names for species in the genus include rabbitfish, spookfish and chimaera.

Distribution

Harriotta species can be found in the deep waters of continental slopes around 380 to 2,600 m deep in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It is also known to be found in the Indian Ocean off of southern Australia. They are also common in the northern Atlantic, northwest Pacific, and southwest Pacific Oceans.

It contains these species:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Harriotta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Harriotta raleighana" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  3. ^ Popov, Evgeny V.; Johns, Marjorie J.; Suntok, Stephen (2020-01-02). "A New Genus of Chimaerid Fish (Holocephali, Chimaeridae) from the Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation of British Columbia, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1): e1772275. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1772275. ISSN 0272-4634.


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