Allocareproctus ungakAllocareproctus ungak, the whiskered snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.SizeThis species reaches a length of.EtymologyThe fish's name means, in Alutiiq, the native language of the Alaskan Peninsula, where this snailfish occurs, "whiskers", referring to the strong papillae on its many cephalic pores.