Allocareproctus ungak, Whiskered snailfish

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Allocareproctus ungak Orr & Busby, 2006

Whiskered snailfish
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Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Allocareproctus ungak   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Klassifizierung / Names Namen | Synonyme | Catalog of Fishes(Gattung, Arten) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) > Liparidae (Snailfishes)
Etymology: Allocareproctus: Greek, allos = other + Greek, kara, kare = face + Greek, proktos = anus (Ref. 45335);  ungak: Name from the the Alutiq word for whiskers, referring to the many papillae associated with cephalic pores; noun in apposition..

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

seewasser bathydemersal; tiefenbereich 318 - 461 m (Ref. 57077). Deep-water

Verbreitung Länder | FAO Gebiete | Ecosystems | Vorkommen | Point map | Einführungen | Faunafri

Northeast Pacific: Aleutian Islands.

Size / Gewicht / Alter

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.9 cm SL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 57077)

Kurzbeschreibung Morphologie | Morphometrie

Diagnosis: Teeth are strongly trilobed; nasal pore 1 with unpigmented papilla; peritoneum black; orobuccal valve with 1 finger-like projection; orobuccal cavity pale; gill rakers 7-11, short and blunt; interorbital papilla present; pyloric caeca on right or left side; body red; iris silver gray (Ref. 57077).

Biologie     Fachlexikon (Englisch) (z.B. epibenthic)

Smallest female with yolked eggs measured 8.5 cm SL; smallest male with enlarged, swollen testes 9.5 cm SL (Ref. 57077).

Life cycle and mating behavior Geschlechtsreife | Fortpflanzung | Ablaichen | Eier | Fecundity | Larven

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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 Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435)


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