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Atlantic seasnail

Liparis atlanticus

Classification

Family
Liparidae

Liparis atlanticus, the Atlantic snailfish or Atlantic seasnail, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. This species is found in the western Atlantic Ocean off the eastern coast of North America. Taxonomy Liparis atlanticus was first formally described as Neoliparis atlanticus in 1898 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with its type locality given as Godbout in Quebec.

Distribution

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Spain · 148France · 13