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Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis

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Kingdom
  
Genus
  
Higher classification
  
Pseudoliparis

Family
  
Liparidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

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Scientific name
  
Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis

Similar
  
Snailfish, Abyssobrotula galatheae, Careproctus, Abyssobrotula, Bathypterois grallator

pseudoliparis amblystomopsis


Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, or the hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish from hadal depths of the North Pacific Ocean.

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In October 2008, a team from British and Japanese institutes discovered a shoal of P. amblystomopsis at a depth of 7,700 metres (25,300 ft) in the Japan Trench. These were, until December 2014, the deepest living fish ever recorded on film. The record has since been surpassed by another (unidentified) type of snailfish filmed at a depth of 8,145 metres (26,700 ft).

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References

Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis Wikipedia


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