Psychrolutes phrictus
Translingual
Psychrolutes phrictus
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
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