A new record of Pallas’s snailfish Liparis callyodon (Cottoidei: Liparidae) in the Kuril Islands

A mature female of Pallas’s snailfish Liparis callyodon (Pallas, 1814) (subgenus Neoliparis Steindachner, 1876) was collected on the western coast of Paramushir Island, the Sea of Okhotsk. This is the second record of this rare species in the Kuril Islands. While being within the known area of the species, this finding is significantly distant from the other known localities. The currently known distribution indicates the possibility of new encounters of this species in the Western Pacific, particularly in the Kuril Islands.