Paraliparis

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Paraliparis

Genus of fishes


Paraliparis is a genus of fish in the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. It is found in benthic, benthopelagic and pelagic habitats in all the world's oceans.

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Paraliparis species have one pair of nostrils and lack a pseudobranch or ventral suction disc.[1]

The generic name means "resembling Liparis."[2]

Species

There are currently 143 recognized species in this genus:[3][4]


References

"Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

  1. "Paraliparis hystrix". www.fishbase.se.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Paraliparis in FishBase. December 2014 version.
  3. Stein, D.L. & Drazen, J.C. (2014): Paraliparis hawaiiensis, a new species of snailfish (Scorpaeniformes: Liparidae) and the first described from the Hawaiian Archipelago. Journal of Fish Biology, 84 (5): 1519–1526.
  4. Chernova, N.V. (2006). "New and rare snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) with the description of four new species from the Southern Hemisphere and tropical east Pacific". Journal of Ichthyology. 46 (Supplement 1): 1–14. doi:10.1134/s0032945206100018. hdl:1834/17070. S2CID 10286241.
  5. Chernova, N.V.; V.G. Prut'ko (2011). "Two new species of Paraliparis (Scorpaeniformes: Liparidae) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica)". Journal of Ichthyology. 51 (5): 363–372. doi:10.1134/s0032945211030015. S2CID 38976003.
  6. Stein, D.L. (2012): A Review of the Snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) of New Zealand, Including Descriptions of a New Genus and Sixteen New Species. Zootaxa, 3588: 1–54.
  7. Murasaki K, Takami M, Fukui A (January 2019). "Paraliparis ruficometes sp. nov. (Liparidae), a new snailfish from Suruga Trough, Japan". Ichthyological Research. 6 (1): 122. doi:10.1007/s10228-018-0656-1. S2CID 52052300.
  8. Duhamel, Guy; Nicola King (2007). "Deep-sea snailfish (Scorpaeniformes: Liparidae) of genera Careproctus and Paraliparis from the Crozet Basin (Southern Ocean)" (PDF). Cybium. 31 (3): 379–387. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-07-12.

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