snailfish

snailfish
/snayl"fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) snailfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) snailfishes.
any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
[1830-40; SNAIL + FISH]

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fish
also called  sea snail 

      any of about 115 species of marine fish often placed with the lumpsuckers in the family Cyclopteridae, but sometimes separated as a distinct family, Liparidae (order Scorpaeniformes). Snailfish are small, growing to a maximum length of about 30 centimetres (12 inches). They are elongated, soft, tadpole-shaped fish with loose and scaleless, though sometimes prickly, skins. There is a long dorsal fin on the back and usually a sucking disk below the head. The disk is formed from the pelvic fins and is used for attachment to the bottom.

      Snailfish are found in cold water—in the North Atlantic and North Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic seas. Some, such as the sea snail (Liparis liparis) of the North Atlantic, live in shore waters; others, such as the pink-coloured species of the genus Careproctus, inhabit the deep sea.

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