Caulophryne bacescui
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| Caulophryne bacescui | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Caulophrynidae |
| Genus: | Caulophryne |
| Species: | C. bacescui |
| Binomial name | |
| Caulophryne bacescui Mihai-Bardan, 1982 | |
Caulophryne bacescui is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins or hairy anglerfishes. It is known from a single specimen collected from the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Caulophryne bacescui was first formally described in 1982 by the Romanian biologist Alina Mihai-Bardan from a single specimen taken from the Peru-Chile Trench in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off western South America.[2] This species is classified within the genus Caulophryne, which is one of two genera within the family Caulophrynidae. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the Caulophrynidae within the suborder Ceratioidei of the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.[3]
Etymology
Caulophryne bacescui is a species within the genus Caulophryne. The generic name is a combination of caulis, which mean" stem", an allusion to the stem-like base of the illicium, with phryne, meaning "toad", a suffix commonly used in the names of anglerfish genera. Its use may date as far back as Aristotle and Cicero, who referred to anglerfishes as "fishing-frogs" and "sea-frogs", respectively, possibly because of their resemblance to frogs and toads. The specific name honours the Romanian zoologist Mihai C. Băcescu of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History, who was a participant in the 1965 cruise on which the holotype was obtained. Băcescu gave guidance to Mihai-Bardan in the writing of her description.[4]