''Pseudoliparis'' is a
genus 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 ...
es native to very deep water in the northwestern
Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis
''Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis'', or the hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish from the hadal zone of the Northwest Pacific Ocean, including the Kuril–Kamchatka and Japan Trenches.
In October 2008, a team from British and Japanese instit ...
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( Andriashev, 1955)
* ''
Pseudoliparis belyaevi''
Andriashev & Pitruk, 1993
* ''
Pseudoliparis swirei
''Pseudoliparis swirei'', the Mariana snailfish or Mariana hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish found at hadal depths in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It is known from a depth range of , including a capture at the deepest ...
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Gerringer & Linley, 2017
Habitat
''Pseudoliparis'' are native to the
hadal zone of the ocean. They have been observed swimming at extreme depths of , in very deep ocean trenches of the Pacific Ocean,
including the
Izu-Ogasawara Trench and the
Mariana Trench.
References
Liparidae
Taxa named by Anatoly Andriyashev
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