East-Pacific ventbrotula

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn|author=Uiblein, F.|author2= Everett, B.|author3= Matiku, P. |author4=Sithole, Y. |name-list-style=amp |year=2020 |title= ''Ventichthys biospeedoi'' |article-number= e.T141360898A141807608 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T141360898A141807608.en |access-date=19 March 2024}}</ref> | taxon = Ventichthys biospeedoi | display_parents = 2 | authority = Neilsen, Møller & Segonzac, 2006 }}

The '''East Pacific ventbrotula''' ('''''Ventichthys biospeedoi''''') is a species of cusk-eel found around thermal vents on the southern East Pacific Rise at depths of about {{convert|2586|m|ft}}. This species grows to a length of {{convert|28.2|cm|in}} SL.<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase |genus= Ventichthys|species= biospeedoi| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> It is the only known member of its genus.<ref>{{FishBase genus |genus= Ventichthys| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> The generic name is a compound of ''vent'', for the Oasis hydrothermal vent on the south East Pacific Rise (at a depth of {{convert|2586|m|ft}}) and the Greek ''ichthys'' meaning "fish", while the specific name refers to the French BIOSPEEDO expedition to the south East Pacific Rise which collected the type specimen<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | title = Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE | access-date = 19 March 2024 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | date = 30 November 2023 | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |version= v. 10.0}}</ref> in 2004.<ref name = Neilsen>{{cite journal | author1 = Nielsen, J.G. | author2 = P.R. Møller | author3 = M. Segonzac | name-list-style = amp | year = 2006 | title = ''Ventichthys biospeedoi'' ''n. gen. et sp.'' (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) from a hydrothermal vent in the South East Pacific | url = http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1732.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 1247 | pages = 13–24 | archive-date = 2017-08-08 | access-date = 2018-07-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170808232823/http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1732.pdf }}</ref>

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Category:Ophidiidae Category:Fish described in 2006