Snailfish

The Snailfish lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 3 - 400 m environment.

snailfish family are some of the deepest living fish ever filmed. My curiosity piqued, I soon found that the two most common characteristics given for this species is that it is poorly understood and has a tadpole-shaped body. More

Show IPA Use Snailfish in a SentenceSee web results for SnailfishSee images of Snailfish–noun, plural (especially collectively ) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) -fish⋅es. More

Snailfish (probably Elassodiscus tremebundus) caught in the eastern Bering Sea Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: More

Britannica online encyclopedia article on snailfish (fish), any of about 115 species of marine fish often placed with the lumpsuckers in the family Cyclopteridae, but sometimes ... More

Photo 1: An unidentified snailfish in a tidepool. (Photo taken at Willow Point Reef.) Snailfish: Liparis sp. = This fish tends to lie curled up (as in the photo). More

Review of the Snailfish Genus Paraliparis (Hardcover, 1986) Author: A.P. Andriashev BEST PRICE $37. More

, the snailfish family contains approximately 23 genera and 195 species. More

Salmon snailfish; Variegated snailfish; Blacktail snailfish; Slipskin snailfish; Slimy snailfish; Tidepool snailfish; Total Images : 42 Page No. More

This snailfish grows to 7 in (18 cm) and has a lobe at the front of its dorsal fin and the anal fin barely extending onto the tail fin. Color is from brown to olive. More

Snailfishes are scorpaeniform marine fish of the family Liparidae. Widely distributed from the Arctic to Antarctic Oceans including the northern Pacific, the snailfish family contains approximately 23 genera and 195 species. More

snailfishes, found in shallow intertidal waters around the islands and banks to hadal waters (8200 m or about 26,600 ft.) of the South Sandwich Trench. More

Snailfish Eggs in Golden King Crabs = Along the continental slope of the eastern Bering Sea, two species of Careproctus snailfishes deposit eggs within the branchial chambers of the commercially important golden king crabs (Lithodes aequispina). More

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Although some species of snailfish live in shallow water and even rock pools, the hadal snailfish are found exclusively below 6,000 meters. More

Common names

Aayakich in Ona
Acorazado in Spanish (español)
Chiri-tokubire in Japanese (日本語)
Snailfish in English
智利拟八角鱼 in Mandarin Chinese
智利擬八角魚 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Scorpaeniformes
Family : Agonidae
Genus : Agonopsis
Species : Agonopsis chiloensis
Authority : Jenyns, 1840