Rendahl's messmate
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Rendahl's messmate (Echiodon rendahli) is a pearlfish of the family Carapidae, found in the southwest Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand at depths to Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] Its length is between Script error: No such module "convert"..The larvae has a long filament on its head which bears some resemblance to a siphonophore. These fish live within sponges.[2] The specific name honours the Swedish naturalist and artist Hialmar Rendahl who collected the specimens in the Tasman Sea which were used by Gilbert Percy Whitley to describe this species.[3]
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
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