''Liparis alboventer'' is a species of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

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 The species was originally described ''Careproctus alboventer'' by Zoya Valentinovna Krasyukova in 1984. Very little is known about the fish except from the

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s caught. It may be found in marine habitats at ten degrees Celsius in the South Kuril Strait of the Northwest Pacific.

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alboventer Fish described in 1984 {{Liparidae-stub