Southern driftfish
Appearance
(Redirected from Icichthys australis)
Southern driftfish | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Istiophoriformes |
Family: | Centrolophidae |
Genus: | Icichthys |
Species: | I. australis
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Binomial name | |
Icichthys australis Haedrich, 1966
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The southern driftfish or ragfish, Icichthys australis, is a medusafish of the genus Icichthys found around the world in all southern oceans between latitudes 50° S and 60° S, from the surface down to 2,000 m. Its length is from 35 to 80 cm.
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Icichthys australis". FishBase. February 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8