Psednos nataliae

Psednos nataliae is a small deep-water snailfish of the family Liparidae found in the eastern Indian Ocean, where FishBase records it from the west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is a marine, bathydemersal fish living on the continental slope, recorded down to about 1120 metres, and it reaches a maximum length of 9.9 centimetres. Its original description counts about 50 dorsal soft rays, 42 anal soft rays and 58 vertebrae, and notes a dark mouth and gill cavity closely dotted with pigment cells and a black peritoneum. The species is named in honour of Natalia V. Chernova of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, for her contributions to the knowledge of Arctic fishes and especially snailfishes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has not evaluated it.