Liparidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Liparidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Liparidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Snailfish
The snailfishes or sea snails (not to be confused with invertebrate sea snails), are a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, a family classified within the order Scorpaeniformes.
Widely distributed from the Arctic to Antarctic Oceans, including the oceans in between, the snailfish family contains more than 30 genera and about 410 described species, but there are also many undescribed species. Snailfish are found at depths ranging from shallow coastal waters to more than 8,300 m (27,200 ft), including in seven ocean trenches.
...Liparidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 獅子魚科
- Czech
- terčovkovití
- English
- Snailfishes
- German
- Scheibenbäuche
- Japanese
- クサウオ科
- Russian
- Липаровые
- Russian
- Морские слизни
- Swedish
- ringbuksfiskar
- Ukrainian
- Ліпарові
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Acantholiparis
- Aetheliparis
- Allocareproctus
- Bathyphasma
- Careproctus
- Crystallias
- Crystallichthys
- Eknomoliparis
- Elassodiscus
- Eutelichthys
- Genioliparis
- Gyrinichthys
- Liparis
- Lipariscus
- Lopholiparis
- Menziesichthys
- Nectoliparis
- Notoliparis
- Osteodiscus
- Palmoliparis
- Paraliparis
- Polypera
- Praematoliparis
- Prognatholiparis
- Psednos
- Pseudoliparis
- Pseudonotoliparis
- Rhinoliparis
- Rhodichthys
- Squaloliparis
- Temnocora
- Volodichthys








































































































































