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The ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus) is a fish of the family Channichthyidae. It lives in the cold waters off Antarctica and is known for having transparent haemoglobin-free blood. C. rastrospinosus live in the Southern Ocean up to a depth of 1 km. They are most commonly found on the seabed at 200–400 m.
Channichthyidae. The crocodile icefish or white-blooded fish comprise a family ( Channichthyidae) of notothenioid fish found in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. They are the only known vertebrates to lack hemoglobin in their blood as adults. [2] Icefish populations are known to reside in the Atlantic and Indian sectors of the Southern ...
Chionodraco myersi H. H. DeWitt & J. C. Tyler, 1960 (Myers's icefish) Chionodraco rastrospinosus H. H. DeWitt & Hureau, 1979 (Ocellated icefish) Characteristics. Chionodraco icefishes may have the spine on the snout present or it is reduced to a small centrally placed knob. The gill rakers may bear teeth or are vestigial. The upper and lower ...
An octopus ( pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda ( / ɒkˈtɒpədə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3] ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two ...
Spiny icefish. Chaenodraco wilsoni, the spiny icefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean. This species is the only known member of its genus. It is of minor interest to commercial fisheries.
Chaenocephalus bouvetensis Nybelin, 1947. The blackfin icefish ( Chaenocephalus aceratus ), also known as the Scotia Sea icefish, is a species of crocodile icefish belonging to the family Channichthyidae. [2] The blackfin icefish belongs to Notothenioidei, a suborder of fishes that accounts for 90% of the fish fauna on the Antarctic continental ...
The mackerel icefish has a long, spindle-shaped body with whitish gills and a bluish-silver color. It has an elongated snout and a large mouth with small teeth. [7] The dorsal fins are black in adults and the second caudal fins and anal fins of adult males have distinctive white margins. The mackerel icefish can grow to 66 cm (26 in) in ...
Ice fishing is an altogether different experience with its own challenges. Often one needs a shanty – a protective tent, as it were – to keep the fishermen warm enough to fish through the day.