Whiskered snailfish
📖 Overview
Smallest female with yolked eggs measured 8.5 cm SL; smallest male with enlarged, swollen testes 9.5 cm SL .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Diagnosis: Teeth are strongly trilobed; nasal pore 1 with unpigmented papilla; peritoneum black; orobuccal valve with 1 finger-like projection; orobuccal cavity pale; gill rakers 7-11, short and blunt; interorbital papilla present; pyloric caeca on right or left side; body red; iris silver gray .
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Whiskered snailfish is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Whiskered snailfish is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Whiskered snailfish is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 318 - 461 m . Deep-water Northeast Pacific: Aleutian Islands.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
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