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Champsocephalus
Sign in to saveChampsocephalus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
Species
Mackerel Icefish
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyChannichthyidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Channichthyidae
- Collections
- UWFC, ZMUC
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, N/A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Channichthyidae
- Image
- Mackerel Icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari).jpg
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- taxon name
- Champsocephalus
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- topic's main category
- Category:Champsocephalus
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Champsocephalus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Champsocephalus was first formally described as a genus in 1862 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill as he thought that its type species, Chaenichthys esox which had been described in 1861 by Albert Günther, was distinct enough to be classified in its own genus.
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