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Liparis inquilinus

Inquiline Snailfish
NS G5
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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Scorpaeniformes (Lionfish, Stonefish and others) Liparidae (Snailfishes) Liparis Liparis inquilinus (Inquiline Snailfish)

Description

This species account was compiled from FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version 04/2025.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: elongated.

Distribution

Northwest Atlantic: Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada and Georges Bank to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA.

Habitat Associations

Marine. demersal. depth range 3-97 m.

Biology

Lives in the mantle cavity of the scallop, Placopecten magellanicus (Ref. 51661). Benthic species (Ref. 5951).
Max length: 7.1 cm TL.
IUCN Red List Status: N.E. (N.E.). Resilience: High (K=2.78).

Commercial or Environmental Importance

Fisheries: of no interest.

References

Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott (1988) Atlantic fishes of Canada. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 219:731 p.
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray (1986) A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p.
Opitz, S. (1996) Trophic interactions in Caribbean coral reefs. ICLARM Tech. Rep. 43, 341 p.
Chernova, N.V., D.L. Stein and A.P. Andriashev (2004) Family Liparidae Scopoli 1777 snailfishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (31):72.

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