Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Holocephali
Ordo: Chimaeriformes
Subordo: Chimaeroidei
Familia: Chimaeridae
Genus: Harriotta
Species: H. haeckeli – H. raleighana
Ischnospecies (1): †H. gosseleti
Name
Harriotta Goode & Bean, 1895:32
References
Primary references
Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin U.S. National Museum No. 2: Text: i–xxxv + 1–26 + 1–553, Atlas: i–xxiii, 1–26, 123 pls. BHL Reference page. [p. 32]
Additional references
Nakayama, N., Matsunuma , M. & Endo, H. 2020. A preliminary review and in situ observations of the spookfish genus Harriotta (Holocephali: Rhinochimaeridae). Ichthyological Research 67: 82–91. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-019-00703-y Paywall Reference page.
Links
Zicha, Ondřej et al. Harriotta Goode & Bean, 1895 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Harriotta.
Harriotta is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.[1]
The name honours Thomas Harriot (c.1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history in 1588.[2]
Some common names for species in the genus include rabbitfish, spookfish and chimaera.
Distribution
Harriotta species can be found in the deep waters of continental slopes around 380 to 2,600 m deep in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It is also known to be found in the Indian Ocean off of southern Australia. They are also common in the northern Atlantic, northwest Pacific, and southwest Pacific Oceans.
It contains these species:
Harriotta haeckeli Karrer, 1972 (smallspine spookfish)
†Harriotta lehmani Werdelin, 1986 - Lebanon (Sahel Alma), Late Cretaceous (Santonian)[3]
Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895 (narrownose chimaera)
†Harriotta gosseleti (Winkler, 1880) Belgium, Oligocene (Rupelian)[4]
Video of an H. sp. taken by Okeanos Explorer
See also
List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References
"Harriotta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Harriotta raleighana" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
Werdelin, Lars (1986-01-01). "A new chimaeroid fish from the Cretaceous of Lebanon". Geobios. 19 (3): 393–399. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(86)80026-2. ISSN 0016-6995.
Popov, Evgeny V.; Johns, Marjorie J.; Suntok, Stephen (2020-01-02). "A New Genus of Chimaerid Fish (Holocephali, Chimaeridae) from the Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation of British Columbia, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1): e1772275. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E2275P. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1772275. ISSN 0272-4634.
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