Allocareproctus unangas, Goldeneye snailfish

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Allocareproctus unangas Orr & Busby, 2006

Goldeneye snailfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) > Liparidae (Snailfishes)
Etymology: Allocareproctus: Greek, allos = other + Greek, kara, kare = face + Greek, proktos = anus (Ref. 45335);  unangas: Named for the people of the Aleutian Islands, 'unangas' autonym of he Aleuts of Atka I., a major island near the center of the species distribution; noun in apposition..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 210 - 465 m (Ref. 57077). Deep-water

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North Pacific: Aleutian Is.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 13.0 cm SL (female)

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Diagnosis: Teeth are strongly trilobed; nasal papilla absent; papillae associated with few pores, invariably present only on maxillary pore 6 and suprabranchial pores 1-2 ; peritoneum dark; orobuccal valve with 1 finger-like projection; orobuccal cavity pale; gill rakers 8-12, short and blunt; interorbital papilla present; pyloric caeca on left side, short; body color light red; iris golden (Ref. 57077).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Smallest female with yolked eggs measured 9.1 cm SL; smallest male with enlarged, swollen testes 7.67 cm SL. Eggs were collected from the octocoral Primnoa sp. from Seguam Pass, with eggs of another liparid (Ref. 57077).

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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. (Ref. 57077)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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