No photo available
IllustrationMurray's armoured gurnard
Paraheminodus murrayi
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Murray's armoured gurnard
- Scientific
- Paraheminodus murrayi
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Deep-water fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 26 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Deep-water, on or near the bottom, recorded from 360 to 710 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
An armoured gurnard with a broad, flattened head, a long two-pronged snout, a long chin barbel and bony plates covering the body; it is reddish with a black-edged dorsal fin and reaches about 26 cm. It lives on deep bottoms at roughly 360 to 710 m.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Paraheminodus-murrayi.html
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.