Psednos micrurus

Psednos micrurus, known as Barnard's dwarf snailfish, is a very small deep-water marine fish of the snailfish family Liparidae, described by Barnard in 1927. FishBase records it only from off Cape Point, South Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean, and suggests it probably ranges north to the Madagascar Ridge. It lives on or near the bottom of the continental slope at depths of about 1207 to 1280 metres. It reaches a maximum length of only 4.5 centimetres, and its body is elongated and humpbacked at the back of the head, with a superior, oblique mouth. It has 36 to 37 dorsal soft rays, 28 to 31 anal soft rays and 42 vertebrae. It has no dorsal or anal spines. It is harmless to people and of no interest to fisheries, and the IUCN assessed it as Data Deficient in 2017.