The Species Black List
Careproctus aciculipunctatus
finely-speckled snailfish
The finely-speckled snailfish (Careproctus aciculipunctatus) and Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti) are each known only from a single specimen collected from the Porcupine Basin off the southwestern coast of Ireland.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 5, type locality or a single collection
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- Porcupine Basin
- As IUCN records it
- Careproctus aciculipunctatus Andriashev & Chernova, 1997