snailfish meaning

• Noun: snailfish  'sneyl`fish
  1. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
     - seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis

  Derived forms: snailfishes

  Type of: scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish

  Part of: genus Liparis, Liparis

  Encyclopedia: Snailfish

• The snailfish family is poorly studied and few specifics are known.
• Snailfish are of no interest to commercial fisheries.
• Snailfish are abundant in most ( especially polar ) waters and are highly resilient.
• This is one of only four snailfish species recorded from a depth of below 6000 m.
• The species is known under the common names of gelatinous seasnail and gelatinous snailfish in French.
• The pectoral fins are large and provide the snailfish with its primary means of locomotion although they are fragile.
• The record has since been surpassed by another ( unidentified ) type of snailfish filmed at a depth of.
• The diet of snailfish consists primarily of small benthic crustaceans, mollusks, polychaete worms, and other small invertebrates.
• Snailfish range in size from " Paraliparis australis " at to " Polypera simushirae " at some in length.
• ""'Crystallichthys matsushimae " "'is a species of snailfish native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

• "snailfish" meaning in Chinese: 剥皮鱼
• "snailfish" meaning in Japanese: {名} : 《魚》スネイル?フイッシュ◆寒水魚。吸盤を持つ。40cm 長。形はおたまじゃくし。◆【同】seasnai...
• "snailfish" meaning in Russian: ихт. липарис ( Liparis ); pl липаровые, морские слизни...
• "snailfish" meaning in French: liparidae