MBARI's advanced underwater technology is revealing the remarkable species that thrive in the deep sea. In 2019, MBARI researchers encountered an unfamiliar pink snailfish swimming just above the seafloor. New research from MBARI collaborators has confirmed this individual represents a species previously unknown to science: the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi).

A team of researchers from the State University of New York at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo), with scientists from the University of Montana and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, published their findings in the journal Ichthyology and Herpetology, describing the bumpy snailfish observed by MBARI researchers alongside two other snailfishes from the abyssal seafloor offshore of California.