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Agassiz's Snailfish
Liparis agassizii
Liparis agassizii, in one instance called "Agassiz's snailfish", is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. It lives in the North Pacific Ocean at a depth range between zero and one hundred meters. The fish may especially be found from the Iwate Prefecture to Hokkaido, off the coast of Primorskiy, off the western and southeastern coast of Sakhalin, and in the southern Kuril Islands.
The specific epithet agassizii honours Louis Agassiz.
From the article Liparis agassizii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The fish's body may be brown, gray, or blackish, with either a striped, speckled, mottled, or plain pattern. It grows to a maximum length of 44 cm (TL).
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 615880.