Sharkmouth Snailfish

Caudal-fin rays 8; pectoral fin deeply notched, pectoral girdle with 3 round radials; jaws long, mouth inferior, teeth tiny, tooth plates appear smooth; pores with distinctly contoured rims; chin pores one diameter apart; snout slanted, protruding, subrostral fold deep and entirely covering upper lip; interorbital narrow; pectoral upper ray horizontal with upper part of eye; upper pectoral lobe short, 63% HL, lower lobe short; gill opening equal to eye, dorsolaterally located, completely above horizontal through upper margin of eye; HL 18.7% SL, mandible-anus short, 10.9% SL; uniformly brownish-black, mouth and tooth plates dark grey, tongue black-dotted, gill arches dark grey, peritoneum black (Ref. 42734).

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 59; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 54; Vertebrae: 65

Found on the continental slope. Benthic (Ref. 75154).

Paraliparis plagiostomus, the sharkmouth snailfish, is a species of snailfish found in the Eastern Indian Ocean.