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Agassiz's snailfish (Liparis agassizii)
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Agassiz's snailfish (Liparis agassizii) specimen
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Liparidae

Agassiz's snailfish

Liparis agassizii

Fish Reaching Forty Four Centimeters in the Pacific Ocean

  • Temperate
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Elongated
  • Medium
  • Temperate fish

Liparis agassizii, in one instance called "Agassiz's snailfish", is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. It lives in the North Pacific Ocean at a depth range between zero and one hundred meters. The fish may especially be found from the Iwate Prefecture to Hokkaido, off the coast of Primorskiy, off the western and southeastern coast of Sakhalin, and in the southern Kuril Islands.

Family
Liparidae
Genus
Liparis
Maximum length
44 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
elongated
Distribution
North Pacific: Iwate Prefecture to Hokkaido, in the Peter the Great Bay, the coast of Primorskiy, the western and southeastern coast of Sakhalin and southern Kuril Islands.

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