Vocabulary

palette surgeonfish (Paracanthurus hepatus); palette surgeon; blue surgeonfish; blue tang

Myxinidae (family of hagfish)

Eptatretus (genus of hagfish)

Myxine (genus of hagfish)

smart drug; nootropic

Petromyzontidae (family of parasitic lampreys)

Lampetra (genus of lampreys)

American brook lamprey (Lampetra appendix)

river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)

European brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri)

Turkish brook lamprey (Eudontomyzon lanceolata)

Korean lamprey (Lampetra morii)

Klamath river lamprey (Lampetra similis)

Mexican lamprey (Lampetra spadicea)

Lethenteron (genus of lampreys)

Petromyzon (genus of lamprey)

sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)

Ichthyomyzon (genus of lampreys)

Eudontomyzon (genus of lampreys)

Caspiomyzon (genus of lampreys)

Chimaeridae (family of shortnose chimaeras, cartilaginous fish with short round snouts)

(study of) information systems

Chimaera (genus of cartilaginous fish)

rabbit fish (Chimaera monstrosa)

Hydrolagus (genus of cartilaginous fish)

Hydrolagus alberti (species of Atlantic cartilaginous shortnose chimaera fish)

smalleyed rabbitfish (Hydrolagus affinis); Atlantic chimaera; deepwater chimaera

dark ghost shark (Hydrolagus novaezealandiae, a shortnose chimaera endemic to New Zealand)

(sudden) heavy snowfall

large-eyed rabbitfish (Hydrolagus mirabilis, an Atlantic shortnose chimaera)

Rhinochimaeridae (family of cartilaginous long-nosed chimaera fish)

to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)

Harriotta (genus of long-nosed chimaeras)

Neoharriotta (genus of long-nosed chimaeras)

Rhinochimaera (genus with three species of long-nosed chimaeras)

straightnose rabbitfish (Rhinochimaera atlantica); Atlantic knife-nose chimaera; spearnose chimaera

Heterodontidae (family of bullhead sharks)

Heterodontus (genus of bullhead sharks)

Mexican hornshark (Heterodontus mexicanus, found in the Eastern Pacific)

whitespotted bullhead shark (Heterodontus ramalheira)