Biology:Allocareproctus unangas
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Short description: Species of fish
| Goldeneye snailfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Allocareproctus |
| Species: | A. unangas
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| Binomial name | |
| Allocareproctus unangas J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006
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Allocareproctus unangas, the goldeneye snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the North Pacific Ocean inhabiting the Aleutian Islands. [1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 13.0 cm (5.1 in).[2]
Etymology
The fishes name, unangas, is the autonym of the Aleuts of Atka Island, a major island near the center of this fish's distribution, and so to honor the people of the Aleutian Islands. [3]
References
- ↑ Orr, J.W. and M.S. Busby, 2006. Revision of the snailfish genus Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov (Teleostei: Liparidae), with descriptions of four new species from the Aleutian Islands. Zootaxa 1173:1-37.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Allocareproctus unangas" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ "Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family LIPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/perciformes22/.
Wikidata ☰ Q2527259 entry
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