Psednos carolinae explained

Psednos carolinae is a species of snailfish only known from a single male specimen collected in mid-Indian Ocean in 1964.

This fish, 39 mm standard length, has a slender body and large head with the mouth angled upwards 90°. It can be distinguished from all other Psednos species by the low number of vertebrae (38).^[1]

Notes and References

1. David L. Stein . Descriptions of four new species, redescription of Paraliparis membranaceus and additional data on species of the fish family Liparidae (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes) from the west coast of South America and the Indian Ocean . 2005 . . 1019 . 1–25 .