Paraliparis dewitti

Paraliparis dewitti, the brown ribbed snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the eastern Indian Ocean.^[1]

Paraliparis dewitti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Liparidae
Genus:	Paraliparis
Species:	P. dewitti
Binomial name
Paraliparis dewitti Stein, Chernova & Andriashev, 2001

Size

This species reaches a length of 19.2 cm (7.6 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist-oceanographer Hugh H. DeWitt (1933-1995), of the University of Maine. ^[3]

References

1. Stein, D.L., N.V. Chernova and A.P. Andriashev, 2001. Snailfishes (Pisces: Liparidae) of Australia, including descriptions of thirty new species. Rec. Aust. Mus. 53:341-406.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paraliparis dewitti". FishBase. February 2015 version.
3. 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.