Lipariscus nanus Gilbert 1915

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Liparidae; Lipariscus; Lipariscus nanus; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605579; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF1DFF3998EAFF65FF5A318F

Lipariscus nanus Gilbert, 1915. Pygmy Snailfish . To 7.1 cm (2.8 in) SL (Kido 1993). Southern Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido, vicinity of Commander Islands, and western Bering Sea; along Aleutian Islands from Unimak Pass to Rat Islands (Maslenikov et al. 2013), eastern Bering Sea to Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Monterey Bay, central California (Stein 1978). Depth: 58–910 m (190–2,985 ft) (min.: Gilbert 1915; max.: Kido 1988). A specimen (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington, UW 117779), originally identified as this species, and both larger and deeper than previous maxima, is Rhinoliparis attenuatus Burke, 1912 (Katherine Maslenikov). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 141, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008