Lloyd's slickhead (''Narcetes lloydi'') is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of fish in the family

Alepocephalidae Slickheads, also known as nakedheads or smoothheads, are deep water fishes that belong to the family Alepocephalidae. They are most commonly found in the bathypelagic layer, which is approximately 3000m below the surface. They get their name from ...

(slickheads). The fish is found in the Indo-West Pacific: on Indian Ocean ridges, in the Arabian Sea and the South China Sea. This species reaches a length of .

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of surgeon-naturalist Richard E. Lloyd (b. 1875), of the Marine Survey of India and a student of the deep-sea fishes caught by the RV ‘Investigator,’ in 1909.

References

*Markle, D.F., 1986. Alepocephalidae. p. 218-223. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Alepocephalidae Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Fish described in 1934 {{Rayfinned-fish-stub