Psychrolutes phrictus

Translingual

Etymology

See Psychrolutes for the genus name; the species name is from Ancient Greek φρικτός (phriktós, “causing one to shudder”) in reference to the species' grotesque appearance.^[1]

Proper noun

Psychrolutes phrictus

A taxonomic species within the family Psychrolutidae – a blobfish.

Hypernyms

(species): Perciformes - order; Cottoidei - suborder; Cottales - suborder; Psychrolutidae - family; Psychrolutes - genus

References

Blobfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Psychrolutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Psychrolutes phrictus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

^ COAD, B. (2018). Family 46. Psychrolutidae: Fathead Sculpins, Chabots veloutés (3). In MØLLER P., RENAUD C., ALFONSO N., DUNMALL K., POWER M., SAWATZKY C., et al. (Authors) & COAD B. & REIST J. (Eds.), Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada (pp. 440-445). TORONTO; BUFFALO; LONDON: University of Toronto Press. Retrieved February 27, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1x76h0b.69

[Coad2018-1] COAD, B. (2018). Family 46. Psychrolutidae: Fathead Sculpins, Chabots veloutés (3). In MØLLER P., RENAUD C., ALFONSO N., DUNMALL K., POWER M., SAWATZKY C., et al. (Authors) & COAD B. & REIST J. (Eds.), Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada (pp. 440-445). TORONTO; BUFFALO; LONDON: University of Toronto Press. Retrieved February 27, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1x76h0b.69

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