Liparis fabricii Kroyer 1847

Liparis fabricii Krøyer, 1847.

Gelatinous Seasnail. To 23.7 cm (9.3 in) SL (Stasko et al. 2016). Circumpolar in Arctic; Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), at least as far north as near Herald Island (71°55’N, 175°18’W), northern Chukchi Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2007) southward to north Saint Lawrence Island (64°30’N, 170°26’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2011). Pelagic and benthic (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018); depth: 6 m or less to at least 520 m (20–1,706 ft) (min.: Coad in Coad and Reist 2018; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016) and perhaps as deep as 1,880 m (6,204 ft) but this latter may represent a midwater catch by a bottom trawl (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Although it has been suggested that Liparis fabricii is a species complex, discussed in Mecklenburg et al. (2018), Mecklenburg et al. (2018) go on to state that “Both morphology and DNA indicate that one species is represented from the Pacific Arctic eastward to the Arctic Ocean off Svalbard.”