Allocareproctus ungak, the whiskered snailfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. These fish are found in the Northeast 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 means, in Alutiiq, the native language of the Alaskan Peninsula, where this snailfish occurs, "whiskers", referring to the strong papillae on its many cephalic pores.
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