Ipnopidae

Ipnops meadi

Ipnops meadi

Ipnopid Fish of Coastal Waters

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Small

Ipnops meadi, also known as the grideye fish, is a highly specialized species of Placodithyran abyssal fish found in the Clarion–Clipperton zone of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. The species was named after Giles W. Mead of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, a biology professor at Harvard, deep sea explorer, and ichthyologist.