Harriotta Explained

Harriotta is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.

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.

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.

Species

• Harriotta haeckeli Karrer, 1972 (smallspine spookfish)
• Harriotta lehmani Werdelin, 1986 - Lebanon (Sahel Alma), Late Cretaceous (Santonian)^[1]
• Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895 (narrownose chimaera)^[2]
• Harriotta gosseleti (Winkler, 1880) Belgium, Oligocene (Rupelian)^[3]

• Harriotta avia Finucci, Didier, Ebert, Green & Kemper, 2024^[4]

See also

• List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish

Notes and References

1. Werdelin . Lars . 1986-01-01 . A new chimaeroid fish from the Cretaceous of Lebanon . Geobios . 19 . 3 . 393–399 . 10.1016/S0016-6995(86)80026-2 . 0016-6995.
2. Goode . G. Brown . George Brown Goode . Bean . Tarleton H. . Tarleton Hoffman Bean . 1895 . Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XXX. On Harriotta, a new type of chimaeroid fish from the deeper waters of the northwestern Atlantic . . 17 . 1014 . 471–473 . 10.5479/si.00963801.17-1014.471 . .
3. 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 . en . 40 . 1 . e1772275 . 10.1080/02724634.2020.1772275 . 2020JVPal..40E2275P . 0272-4634.
4. Finucci . Brittany . Didier . Dominique . Ebert . David A. . Green . Madeline E. . Kemper . Jenny M. . 2024-08-21 . Harriotta avia sp. nov. – a new rhinochimaerid (Chimaeriformes: Rhinochimaeridae) described from the Southwest Pacific . Environmental Biology of Fishes . en . 107 . 8 . 841–865 . 10.1007/s10641-024-01577-4 . 0378-1909.