The needletooth cusk (''Epetriodus freddyi'') is a species of
cusk-eel found in the
Indian and the western
Pacific Ocean where it occurs at depths of . This species grows to a length of
SL. It is the only known species of its
genus The
generic name is a compound of the
Greek ' meaning "needle" and ' meaning "tooth", while the
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
honours the
English ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
Norman Bertram “Freddy” Marshall (1915-1996) who worked on deep sea fishes as the
British Museum (Natural History).
References
Ophidiidae
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 1978
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