The snailfishes or sea snails are a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, which is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes.
Nigel Robert Merrett is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum.
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.
Careproctus is a genus of snailfishes found in benthic and benthopelagic habitats in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Southern Oceans. Whether they truly are absent from the Indian Ocean is unknown and might be an artifact of limited sampling. They range from shallow coastal seas in the far north of their range to the abyssal zone, at depths of 6 to 5,459 m (20–17,910 ft). In the Northern Hemisphere they mostly live shallower than Paraliparis, but this pattern is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. Although almost entirely restricted to very cold waters, a single species, C. hyaleius, lives at hydrothermal vents.
Liparis fabricii, commonly known as the gelatinous seasnail or gelatinous snailfish, is a benthopelagic species of snailfish from the Arctic Ocean. It has a tadpole-like body with a maximum length of about 20 cm (7.9 in). It is brown to black in coloration with a distinctive dark peritoneum. It preys on small crustaceans and marine worms. It is not commercially important, though it is a valuable food source for predatory fish and seabirds in the Arctic region.
Liparis is a large genus of snailfish from the northern hemisphere. They are very common in temperate and cold waters. Chernova (2008) has proposed that the genus should be subdivided into five subgenera: Liparis, Neoliparis, Lycocara, Careliparis, and Lyoliparis.
Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev was a Soviet and Russian ichthyologist, marine biologist, and zoogeographist, notable for his studies of marine fauna of the Arctic and the Northern Pacific.
Volodichthys is a genus of snailfishes found in deep water, more than 750 m (2,460 ft), of southern oceans near Antarctica and southern South America. Its members were formerly included in the genus Careproctus.
Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania. He is an elasmobranch expert and has described many new species of shark.
The common Atlantic grenadier is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae.
Kamryn Paraliparis abyssorum is a species of fish in the family Liparidae (snailfish).
Merret's snailfish, also called the snakehead snailfish, is a species of fish in the family Liparidae.
Paraliparis hystrix is a species of fish in the family Liparidae (snailfish).
Paraliparis bipolaris is a species of fish in the family Liparidae (snailfish).
Paraliparis atrolabiatus, the darklip snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the eastern Indian Ocean.
Paraliparis lasti, the rusty snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the eastern Indian Ocean.
Paraliparis plagiostomus, the sharkmouth snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the eastern Indian Ocean.
Psednos andriashevi, also known as Andriashev's dwarf snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean just west of Ireland.
Pseudoliparis belyaevi is a species of snailfish found in hadal zone of the Northwest Pacific Ocean, particularly the Japan Trench.
Careproctus spiraki, or pimpled snailfish, is a small, marine, bottom-dwelling snailfish. The type specimen was collected in a bottom trawl 457 meters deep in Seguam Pass in the Aleutian Islands. The species was first described to science by J. W. Orr in 2021.
