Gargoyle fish
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| Gargoyle fish | |
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| Drawing by Alan Riverstone McCulloch | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Macrouridae |
| Subfamily: | Macrourinae |
| Genus: | Caelorinchus |
| Species: | C. mirus |
| Binomial name | |
| Caelorinchus mirus McCulloch, 1926 |
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The gargoyle fish or small-eye rattail, Caelorinchus mirus, is a rattail of the genus Caelorinchus, found around southeast Australia and between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Caelorinchus mirus" in FishBase. April 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
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