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Liparis tunicatus Reinhardt, 1836 
AphiaID: 154825

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Liparidae (Family) > Liparis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Liparis Scopoli, 1777
Synonymised
taxa
  Liparis arctica Gill, 1864 (synonym)
Liparis herschelinus Scofield, 1898
Liparis steineni Fischer, 1885
Liparis tunicata Reinhardt, 1836 (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English kelp snailfish  [details]
Norwegian BokmÃ¥l tangringbuk  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk tangringbuk  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Beaufort Sea [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Bay [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Ungava Bay [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (40 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 28 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on pelagic species, especially amphipods  [details]

Dimensions: max. 160 mm TL [details]

Distribution: Arctic to Northwestern Atlantic: Bering Strait to Labrador in Canada; also found in the estuary of the St. Lawrence River in Canada (84oN - 51oN) [details]

Habitat: Arctic species; found close to shore in shallow waters, often among kelp clusters; over rocky, muddy and sandy bottoms, attaches to substrate with ventral disc; euryhaline; 0-400 m [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154825
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-19 07:59:47Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Liparis tunicatus Reinhardt, 1836. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154825 on 2013-05-22
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