Paraliparis holomelas Gilbert 1896
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Scorpaeniformes
- family
- Liparidae
- genus
- Paraliparis
- species
- Paraliparis holomelas
description
Ebony Snailfish. To 10 cm (3.9 in) TL (Gilbert 1896). Sea of Okhotsk (Schmidt 1950); Pacific Ocean off northern Kuril Islands and south-eastern Kamchatka (Love et al. 2005); south-eastern Bering Sea to western and central Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 55 – 2,972 m (180 – 10,991 ft) (min.: Busby and Cartwright 2006; max.: Gilbert 1896); reported to 3,356 m (11,008 ft) (Orlov and Tokranov 2019) but without documentation. The specimen reported by Schmidt (1950) from the Sea of Okhotsk at 3,350 m is not this species (Love et al. 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Paraliparis holomelas Gilbert 1896