Liparidae

Blushing snailfish

Careproctus maslenikovae

• Temperate
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Temperate fish

Careproctus maslenikovae, or blushing snailfish, is a small, marine, bottom-dwelling snailfish. The type specimen was collected in a bottom trawl 234 meters deep west of the Islands of Four Mountains in the Aleutian Islands. The species was first described to science by J. W. Orr in 2021.