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Allocareproctus kallaion
Allocareproctus kallaion, the combed snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the Northeast Pacific Ocean inhabiting the east-central Aleutian Islands.
From the article Allocareproctus kallaion on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish's name in Greek means "comb", which refers to the multiple projections on the orobuccal valve and a single row of teeth on the posterior part of the dentary.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 615762.