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Bony-eared assfish

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Like many other creatures that dwell in the depths of the sea, assfish are soft and flabby with a light skeleton. This is likely to have resulted from a lack of food and the high pressures which accompany living at such a depth, making it difficult to generate muscle and bone.
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means "armed" in Latin, likely chosen because the fish sports spines off the tip of the nose and the gills. This also perhaps accounts for the "bony-eared" part, according to Gavin Hanke, curator of vertebrate zoology at the
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could either mean "hake, a relative of cod", Hanke says, "or a donkey". Adam Summers, associate director at the
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oceans at depths of from 1,171 to 4,415 metres (3,842 to 14,485 ft). It has been found as far north as
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Girard, Matthew G.; Nonaka, Ai; Baldwin, Carole C.; Johnson, G. David (2024).
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The type specimen was an 11.5-inch (29 cm) individual taken by the
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Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College
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could easily read "as a homonym of the Greek word for ass".
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Fine, M. L.; Horn, M. H.; Cox, B. (23 March 1987). "
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New Guinea

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Ophidiidae
Neobythitinae
Acanthonus
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