Liparidae

hadal snailfish

Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis

Twenty Three Point Eight Centimeters Liparid Fish

• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Medium

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 institutes discovered a shoal of Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis at a depth of about 7,700 m (25,300 ft) in the Japan Trench. These were, at the time, the deepest living fish ever recorded on film.