''Paraliparis lasti'', the rusty snailfish, is a species of

snailfish The Liparidae, commonly known as snailfish or sea snails, are a Family (biology), family of Saltwater fish, marine Scorpaeniformes, scorpaeniform fishes. Widely distributed from the Arctic Ocean, Arctic to Antarctic Oceans, including the ocea ...

found in the eastern Indian Ocean.

Size

This species reaches a length of .

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of

Peter R. Last Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania. He is an elasmobranch expert and h ...

, of the CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research.

References

Liparidae Taxa named by Daniel L. Stein Taxa named by Natalia Vladimirovna Chernova Taxa named by Anatoly Andriyashev Fish described in 2001 {{Scorpaeniformes-stub