snailfish
any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
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For snailfish and other animals living in these meadows, xenophyophores may provide structure to an otherwise-flat habitat.
The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.
This Soft Robot Stingray Just Explored the Deepest Point in the Ocean | Shelly Fan | March 9, 2021 | Singularity HubGerringer, one of the researchers who first described the deep-sea snailfish in 2014, constructed a 3-D printed soft robot version of it several years later to better understand how it swims.
This soft robot withstands crushing pressures at the ocean’s greatest depths | Carolyn Gramling | March 3, 2021 | Science News
British Dictionary definitions for snailfish
/ (ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ) /
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