Harriotta
| Harriotta | |
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| Harriotta raleighana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | Rhinochimaeridae |
| Genus: | Harriotta Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895 |
Harriotta is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.[1]
Some common names for species in the genus include bentnose rabbitfish, bigspine spookfish, longnose chimaera, long-nosed chimaera, longnosed chimaera, and narrownose chimaera.[1]
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.[1]
It contains these species:
- Harriotta haeckeli , 1972 (smallspine spookfish)
- † Werdelin, 1986
- Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895 (narrownose chimaera)
See also[]
- List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References[]
- ^ a b c Dagit, D.D.; Walls, R.H.L.; Buscher, E. (2016). "Harriotta raleighana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60140A3088899. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T60140A3088899.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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Categories:
- Harriotta
- Cartilaginous fish genera
- Fauna of the Canary Islands
- Fish of Namibia
- Marine fish of Southern Australia
- Marine fish of New Zealand
- Taxa named by Tarleton Hoffman Bean
- Taxa named by George Brown Goode
- Cartilaginous fish stubs