Allocareproctus jordani
| Cherry snailfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Liparidae |
| Genus: | Allocareproctus |
| Species: | A. jordani
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| Binomial name | |
| Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930)
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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. [1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 34.0 cm (13.4 in).[2]
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. [3]
References
- ^ Chernova, N.V., D.L. Stein and A.P. Andriashev, 2004. Family Liparidae Scopoli 1777 snailfishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (31):72.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Allocareproctus jordani". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family LIPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 May 2025.