Allocareproctus ungak
| Whiskered snailfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Allocareproctus |
| Species: | A. ungak
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| Binomial name | |
| Allocareproctus ungak J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006
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Allocareproctus ungak, the whiskered snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the Northeast Pacific Ocean inhabiting the Aleutian Islands. [1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 12.9 cm (5.1 in).[2]
Etymology
The fishes name means in Alutiiq, the native people of the Alaskan Peninsula, which is where this snailfish occurs, the word for whiskers, referring to the strong papillae on its many cephalic pores. [3]
References
- ^ Orr, J.W. and M.S. Busby, 2006. Revision of the snailfish genus Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov (Teleostei: Liparidae), with descriptions of four new species from the Aleutian Islands. Zootaxa 1173:1-37.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Allocareproctus ungak". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family LIPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 May 2025.