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Rendahl's messmate
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Ophidiiformes
Family:	Carapidae
Genus:	Echiodon
Species:	E. rendahli
Binomial name
Echiodon rendahli (Whitley, 1941)
Synonyms
Carapus rendahli Whitley, 1941

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 60 metres (200 ft). Its length is between 10 and 12 centimetres (3.9 and 4.7 in).The larvae has a long filament on its head which bears some resemblance to a siphonophore. These fish live within sponges. 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.

References

1. Ayling, Tony; Geoffrey J. Fox (1982). Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand. Auckland: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216987-8.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Echiodon rendahli". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Echiodon rendahli". FishBase. March 2006 version.
4. "Messmate Fish, Echiodon rendahli (Whitley 1941)". Fishes of Australia. Museums Voctoria. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
5. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 March 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 July 2018.

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