''Tetragondacnus spilotus'' is a species of
pearlfish
Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to , along oceanic shelves and slopes. They are slender, elongated fish with no sca ...
found in the
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
waters off of
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
where it has been recovered at a depth of just over .
[Anderson, M. E. and Satria, F.:]
A New Subfamily, Genus, and Species of Pearlfish (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes: Carapidae) from Deep Water off Indonesia.
''Species Diversity, 2007, 12, 73–82'' This species is the only known member of its
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
.
References
Carapidae
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 2007
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