Psednos balushkini

Psednos balushkini, known as the palemouth snailfish, is a small deep-water fish of the snailfish family Liparidae. It is found in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where FishBase records it from the Tasman Sea off New South Wales, Australia. It is a marine, bathydemersal fish, recorded at depths of about 914 to 978 metres on the continental slope, and it lives on or near the sea floor. The species reaches a maximum length of 8.4 centimetres. Its name honours the Russian ichthyologist Arkady V. Balushkin for his contributions to the knowledge of Antarctic fishes, especially the taxonomy of the suborder Notothenioidei, while the genus name Psednos comes from a Greek word meaning rare. It was described by Stein, Chernova and Andriashev in 2001 in a survey of the snailfishes of Australia. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has not evaluated it.