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Harriotta Goode & Bean 1895 [an]a- (L.), belonging to: per Goode & Bean (1896)1, in honor of Thomas Harriott (ca. 1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history (1588)
Harriotta chaetirhamphus (Tanaka 1909) chaeto-, from chaítē (Gr. χαίτη), long hair or mane but often meaning bristle in biology; rhamphus, from rhámphos (Gr. ῥάμφος), beak or bill, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to numerous, recurved, spinous denticles on under surface of distal 2/3 of snout (prominent in males)
Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean 1895 -ana (L.), belonging to: Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1554‒1618), “philosopher and explorer, by whom the first English scientific expedition was sent to the New World”; Raleigh funded a 1585 expedition to Roanoke Island, North Carolina (USA), with Thomas Harriott (honored in the generic name) as ethnographer and naturalist
Neoharriotta Bigelow & Schroeder 1950 néos (Gr. νέος), new, i.e., a new genus related to Harriotta
Neoharriotta carri Bullis & Carpenter 1966 in honor of James K. Carr (1914‒1980), former Under Secretary, U. S. Department of Interior, for “his great personal interest and counsel in the [Bureau of Commercial Fisheries’] exploratory fishing programs”
Neoharriotta pinnata (Schnakenbeck 1931) Latin for winged, possibly referring to its broad pectoral fins
Neoharriotta pumila Didier & Stehmann 1996 Latin for dwarf, referring to its small size at maturity, “making it an apparent dwarf among chimaeroids”
Rhinochimaera Garman 1901 a chimaera with rhinós (Gr. ῥινός), genitive of rhís (ῥίς), nose, referring to long, pointed proboscis of R. pacifica
Rhinochimaera africana Compagno, Stehmann & Ebert 1990 -ana (L.), belonging to: named for both its distribution around southern Africa and for the Sea Fisheries Research Institute research vessel Africana, from which holotype was collected
Rhinochimaera atlantica Holt & Byrne 1909 -ana (L.), belonging to: North Atlantic Ocean, where it occurs
Rhinochimaera pacifica (Mitsukuri 1895) -ana (L.), belonging to: Pacific Ocean, described as a Pacific congener of Harriotta raleighana