Allocareproctus jordani


Allocareproctus jordani, the cherry snailfish, is a species of marine
ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes.
These fish are found in the Northwest Pacific: off of Honshu, Japan at Sagami Bay, the Kuril Islands, and the eastern Okhotsk Sea.

Size

This species reaches a length of.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist David Starr Jordan, who co-described this species as Careproctus gilberti in 1914 but used a preoccupied name and so it was redescribed.