''Paraliparis bipolaris'' is a
species of fish in the family
Liparidae
The Liparidae, commonly known as snailfish or sea snails, are a family of marine scorpaeniform fishes.
Widely distributed from the Arctic to Antarctic Oceans, including the oceans in between, the snailfish family contains more than 30 genera ...
(snailfish).
Description
''Paraliparis bipolaris'' is up to long.
Its specific name means "of the two poles", an allusion to how it is closely related to ''
Paraliparis kreffti'', an Antarctic fish.
Habitat
''Paraliparis bipolaris'' lives in the northeast
Atlantic Ocean, off
Ireland's southwest coast. It is
bathydemersal
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).Walrond Carl . "Coastal fish - Fish of the open sea floor"Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2 March 2009 They occ ...
, living at .
References
bipolaris
Fish described in 1997
Taxa named by Anatoly Andriyashev
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