Allocareproctus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the northern Pacific Ocean.
| Allocareproctus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov, 1993 |
| Type species | |
| Careproctus jordani | |
Taxonomy
editAllocareproctus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1993 by the Russian ichthyologists Dmitry Leonidovich Pitruk and Vladimir Vladimirovich Fedorov with Careproctus jordani as its only species. C. jordani had been described in 1930 by Charles Victor Burke with its type locality in Sagami Bay in Japan.[2] In 2006 James Wilder Orr and Morgan Scott Busby reviewed the genus, described 4 new species from the Aleutian Islands and confirmed the genus as a valid genus.[3]
Etymology
editAllocareproctus is made up of Careproctus, the original genus of A. jordani, prefixed with allo, which means "other", i.e. close to Careproctus.[4]
Species
editAllocareproctus has 5 species currently classified within it:[5]
- Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930) (Cherry snailfish)
- Allocareproctus kallaion J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006 (Combed snailfish)
- Allocareproctus tanix J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006 (Peach snailfish)
- Allocareproctus unangas J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006 (Goldeneye snailfish)
- Allocareproctus ungak J. W. Orr & Busby, 2006 (Whiskered snailfish)
Characteristics
editAllocareproctus is characterized by the first 4 to 8 rays of the dorsal fin having their tips free of the fin membrane and they have papillae associated with of the sensory system on the head. In the skull the symplectic bone extends to the central faces of the quadrate bone and the metapterygoid.[3] The largest species is A. jordani which has a maximum published total length of 34 cm (13 in).[5]
Distribution and habitat
editAllocareproctus snailfishes are only found in the northern Pacific Ocean from Japan to the Aleutian Islands.[3] They are bathydemersal fishes found in deep water down to 631 m (2,070 ft).[5]
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Liparidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Allocareproctus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ a b c James Wilder Orr & Morgan Scott Busby (2006). "Revision of the snailfish genus Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov (Teleostei: Liparidae), with descriptions of four new species from the Aleutian Islands" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1173: 1–37.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (4 October 2022). "Order Perciformes (part 22): Suborder Cottoidei: Infraorder Cottales: Family Liparidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Allocareproctus". FishBase. February 2023 version.
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