Allocareproctus unangas, the goldeneye snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the North Pacific Ocean inhabiting the Aleutian Islands. Orr, J.W. and M.S. Busby, 2006. Revision of the snailfish genus Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov (Teleostei: Liparidae), with descriptions of four new species from the Aleutian Islands. Zootaxa 1173:1-37.
Size This species reaches a length of .
Etymology The fish's name, "unangas", is the autonym of the Aleuts of Atka Island, a major island near the center of this fish's distribution, and so honors the people of the Aleutian Islands.
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