Snyderidia canina

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Knudsen, S. |year=2015 |title=''Snyderidia canina'' |volume=2015 |article-number=e.T20665159A20683418 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T20665159A20683418.en |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref> | image = Snyderidia canina.jpg | taxon = Snyderidia canina | display_parents= 3 | authority = C. H. Gilbert, 1905 | synonyms = ''Snyderidia bothrops'' {{small|Robins & Nielsen, 1970}} }}

'''''Snyderidia canina''''' is a species of pearlfish found in all tropical waters but those of the eastern Pacific Ocean, depths from {{cvt|110|to|1762|m|ft|-1}}. This species grows to a length of {{cvt|26.8|cm|in}}.<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase |genus= Snyderidia|species= canina| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> This fish is the only known species in its genus which was named in honour of the ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder (1867–1943) for the assistance he lent to Charles Henry Gilbert on the cruise to Hawaii on which the type specimen was collected.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | title = Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE | access-date = 10 July 2018 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | date = 21 March 2018 | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database}}</ref>

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Category:Carapidae Category:Fish described in 1905 Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert