''Genioliparis'' is a

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of marine

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es belonging to the

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Liparidae The snailfishes or sea snails (not to be confused with invertebrate sea snails), are a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, a family classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Widely distributed from the ...

, the snailfishes. These fishes are found in the Pacific and Southern Oceans.

Taxonomy

''Genioliparis'' was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1976 by the Soviet ichthyologists

Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev (; 19 August 1910 – 4 January 2009) was a Soviet and Russian Ichthyology, ichthyologist, Marine biology, marine biologist, and zoogeography, zoogeographist, notable for his studies of marine fauna of the Arctic and ...

and

Alexei Vladimovich Neyelov Alexey ( ; ), is a Russian and Bulgarian male given name derived from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius. Similar Ukrainian and Belarusian names are romanized as Oleksii (Олек� ...

when they described ''Genioliparis lindbergi'' as a new species from the

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. In 1978 David L. Stein described ''Odontoliparis ferox'' from the northeastern Pacific Ocean and this species was noted to be similar to ''G. lindbergi'', when another new species, ''G. kafanovi'', was described in 2008 by Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin and Olga Stepanovna Voskoboinikova and it was noted that ''O. ferox'' was similar to ''Genioliparis'' and that it should be included in that genus.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * '' Genioliparis ferox'' (

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, 1978) * '' Genioliparis kafanovi'' Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 2008 * '' Genioliparis lindbergi'' Andriashev & Neyelov, 1976

References

Liparidae Taxa named by Anatoly Andriyashev Taxa named by Alexei Vladimovich Neyelov Fish described in 1976 {{Liparidae-stub