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Although most snailfish live no deeper than the bathyal zone (less than 4,000 m [13,000 ft] deep), some live at greater depths than any other fish. In 2008, a UK-Japan team discovered a shoal of Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis snailfish at a depth of 7,700 m (25,300 ft) in the Japan Trench. [18]
Pseudoliparis swirei, the Mariana snailfish or Mariana hadal snailfish, ... This species is known from a depth range of 6,198–8,076 m (20,335–26,496 ft), ...
An unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis was filmed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan, at a depth of 8,336m during a two-month long expedition. “The Japanese trenches ...
Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, or the hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish from the hadal zone of the Northwest Pacific Ocean, [1] including the Kuril–Kamchatka and Japan Trenches. [ 2 ] In October 2008, a team from British and Japanese institutes discovered a shoal of Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis at a depth of about 7,700 m (25,300 ft ...
This possibly breaks the depth record for a fish collected from the seafloor, previously held by Pseudoliparis swirei at a depth of 7,966 m (26,135 ft). [5] The Liparidae family originated in the North Pacific then made its way to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, then along the Americas. [6] The water in these areas is either temperate or ...
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Notoliparis kermadecensis (from Greek: noton, back, and liparos, fat) is a species of snailfish (Liparidae) that lives in the deep sea.Endemic to the Kermadec Trench in the Southwest Pacific, it is hadobenthic with a depth range between 6,474 and 7,561 m (21,240–24,806 ft), [1] and can reach a standard length of up to 25.8 cm (10.2 in).
In December 2014, a new species of snailfish was discovered at a depth of 8,145 m (26,722 ft; 4,454 fathoms), breaking the previous record for the deepest living fish seen on video. [45] During the 2014 expedition, several new species were filmed, including huge amphipods known as supergiants.