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*Crystallichthys mirabilis Jordan & Gilbert, 1896. Wonderful Snailfish. To 36.0 cm (14.2 in) SL (Tokranov
2000a). Western North Pacific off northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka; reported, but
no firm records, from eastern Bering Sea, Alaska. Bottom at depths of 53–318 m (174–1,043 ft). All in
Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Elassodiscus caudatus (Gilbert, 1915). Humpback Snailfish. To 18.3 cm (7.2 in) SL, 19.9 cm (7.8 in) TL
(Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Eastern Bering Sea, southeastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and British
Columbia (Peden 2003) to central California (34°54'N; Lauth 2001). Benthic, at depths of 241–1,556 m
(791–5,105 ft) (min.: Anderson et al. 1979; max.: Hoff and Britt 2003). Classified by some authors in
Paraliparis.
Elassodiscus tremebundus Gilbert & Burke, 1912. Dimdisk Snailfish. To 39.0 cm (15.4 in) SL (Tokranov
2000a). Okhotsk Sea, Pacific off Hokkaido, Japan and Kuril Islands to western Bering Sea off Cape
Navarin; eastern Bering Sea over continental slope and off Aleutian Islands. Benthic, at depths of 130–
1,286 m (426–4,219 ft). The exceptionally shallow depth of 130 m is from the western Bering Sea. All in
Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Classified by some authors in Paraliparis.
Gyrinichthys minytremus Gilbert, 1896. Minigill Snailfish. Known from one specimen, 7.2 cm (2.8 in) TL.
Bering Sea north of Unalaska Island. Bottom at depth of 640 m (2,100 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Liparis adiastolus Stein, Bond, & Misitano, 2003. Rosybrown Snailfish. To 16.7 cm (6.6 in) SL. Washington
to northern California; probably British Columbia but not confirmed. Benthic, from intertidal to 10 m
(33 ft). All in Stein et al. (2003) except the vernacular, coined later by Stein (pers. comm. to C. W. M.).
Liparis bristolensis (Burke, 1912). Bristol Snailfish. To 6.8 cm (2.7 in) TL. Chukchi Sea to Aleutian Islands and
western Gulf of Alaska. Benthic, at depths of 31–77 m (102–253 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Liparis callyodon (Pallas, 1814). Spotted Snailfish. To about 12.7 cm (5 in) TL (Hart 1973). Kuril Islands,
southeastern Kamchatka, and Commander Islands (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000) to Gulf of Anadyr, Bering
Sea (B. A. Sheiko, pers. comm. to C. W. M.); St. Lawrence Island and Norton Sound, eastern Bering
Sea to Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Oregon (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Intertidal,
including tidepools (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), to 20 m (66 ft; Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).
Liparis catharus Vogt, 1973. Purity Snailfish. One specimen, 55.9 cm (22.0 in) TL. Bradfield Canal, southeastern
Alaska. Bottom at depth of 137 m (450 ft). All in Vogt (1973). Known with certainty only from
the holotype (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Liparis cyclopus Günther, 1861. Ribbon Snailfish. To 11.4 cm (4.5 in) TL (Jordan and Starks 1895).
Petropavlovsk, southeastern Kamchatka to Commander Islands; southeastern Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Oregon (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Intertidal and to 183 m
(600 ft) (min.: Cross 1981; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
Liparis dennyi Jordan & Starks, 1895. Marbled Snailfish. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Hart 1973). Eastern Aleutian
Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Puget Sound, Washington (Hart 1973). Records from Bering Sea and
western Aleutian Islands could be misidentified L. gibbus, and have not been confirmed (Mecklenburg
et al. 2002). Benthic, from depth of 2 m (7 ft) or less to about 225 m (738 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980;
max.: Hart 1973).
Liparis fabricii Krøyer, 1847. Gelatinous Seasnail. To 19.4 cm (7.6 in) TL. Circumpolar in Arctic; Beaufort
and Chukchi seas, Alaska. Benthic and pelagic, at 20–1,880 m (66–6,204 ft); near shore to beneath pack
ice over bottom depths of more than 2 km (6,562 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Liparis florae (Jordan & Starks, 1895). Tidepool Snailfish. To 18.3 cm (7.2 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972).
Kodiak Island, western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to King Harbor, southern California
(Stephens et al. 1994). Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands records are uncertain (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).