| East-Pacific Ventbrotula | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information | |||
| Universe | Real Life | ||
| Classification | Ventichthys biospeedoi | ||
| Species type | Cusk-eel | ||
| Homeworld | Earth | ||
| Intelligence | Non-sapient | ||
| Biochemistry | Carbon-based lifeform | ||
| Discovered | 2004 | ||
| Biological information | |||
| Average length | 28.2 cm (11.1") | ||
| Lineage information | |||
| Cultural information | |||
| Alignment | Unaligned | ||
| Sociocultral characteristics | |||
| Scientific taxonomy | |||
| Planet | Earth | ||
| Domain | Eukaryota (Complex organisms) (Chatton, 1925); (Whittaker & Lynn Margulis, 1978) | ||
| Kingdom | Animalia (Animals) (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||
| Subkingdom | Eumetazoa (Germ tissue divided into 3 layers) (Bütschli, 1910) | ||
| Infrakingdom | Closest Match: Bilateria () (Hatschek, 1888) | ||
| Superphylum | Deuterostomia (Blastophore becomes anus) (Grobben), 1908 | ||
| Phylum | Chordata (Animals with a notochord) (Haeckel, 1874) | ||
| Subphylum | Vertebrata (Animals with a vertebral spine) (J-B Lamarck, 1801) | ||
| Infraphylum | Gnathostomata (Jawed vertebrates) (Gegenbauer, 1874) | ||
| Superclass | Osteichthyes (Bony Fishes) (Huxley, 1880) | ||
| Class | Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes) (Adolf von Klein, 1885) | ||
| Subclass | Neopterygii (Regan, 1923) | ||
| Infraclass | Teleostei (Teleosts — Fishes that can protrude their jaw bones from the mouth) (JP Müller, 1845) | ||
| Superorder | Acanthopterygii (True ray-finned fishes) | ||
| Order | Ophidiiformes (L.S. Berg, 1937) | ||
| Suborder | Ophidioidei (Cusk-eels, pearlfishes, & viviparous brotulas) (Garman, 1899) | ||
| Family | Ophidiidae (Cusk-eels) (Rafinesque, 1810) | ||
| Subfamily | Neobythitinae (Radcliffe, 2013) | ||
| Genus | Ventichthys (Jørgen G. Nielsen, Peter Rask Møller & Michel Segonzac, 2006) | ||
| Species | V. biospeedoi | ||
| Other information | |||
| Status | Data Deficient | ||
| First sighting | 2004 | ||
The East-Pacific ventbrotula (Ventichthys biospeedoi) is a species of cusk-eel endemic to the hydrothermal vents in the southern East Pacific Rise. They are found at depths of around 2,586 metres (8,484 ft).
It is the only known member of its genus.
Etymology[]
The species' generic name, Ventichthys, is a compound word formed from "vent" for the hydrothermal vents that they are found around and "ichthys"—the Ancient Greek word for "fish". Meanwhile its specific name is in reference to the expedition upon which the species was discovered: The BIOSPEEDO expedition out of France.