Merret's snailfish
Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish, is a species of fish in the family Liparidae. Etymology
It is named for the British ichthyologist Nigel Merrett (born 1940). Description

Merret's snailfish is silvery-pink in colour, with a black peritoneum. Its maximum length is . It has 69 vertebrae. Its hypural plate (expanded ends of the hypurals that form a wide, fan-like plate onto which the caudal fin rays are attached) is single, and there are no epurals. Habitat

Merret's snailfish lives in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain; it is bathydemersal and non-migratory, living at depths of up to . References

Merret’s snailfish
Fish described in 1988
Taxa named by Anatoly Andriyashev
Taxa named by Natalia Vladimirovna Chernova