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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) > Liparidae (Snailfishes)
Etymology: Careproctus: Greek, kara = face + Greek, proktos = anus (Ref. 45335); aciculipunctatus: The species name is formed from the Latin words acicula (spinule) and punctatus (dotted)..
More on authors: Andriashev & Chernova.

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Marine; bathydemersal; depth range ? - 4100 m (Ref. 27679). Deep-water

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Northeast Atlantic: Porcupine Basin; known only from the holotype.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 21.0 cm TL (female)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 64; Anal soft rays: 56. The pleural ribs absent; one hypural plate, without slit. Head depth slightly exceeds its width. Mouth terminal. Teeth simple. The near mouth pores are small, round; the chin pores are not adjacent. The gill opening is small. The disk is small, oval, the edge border is narrow, chondral. The disk-anus distance exceeds the disk length by two times. The entire body is densely echinated with very small spinules. The body and the peritoneum are black, the stomach is light with black blood vessels (Ref. 27679).

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Andriashev, A.P. and N.V. Chernova, 1997. Two new species of liparid fishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) from the abyssal part of the eastern North Atlantic. J. Ichthyol. 37(7):479-484. (Ref. 27679)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 18 April 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Careproctus aciculipunctatus Andriashev & Chernova, 1997