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Chaenocephalus
Chaenocephalus aceratus, the blackfin icefish, is a species of crocodile icefish known from around Bouvet Island and the northern Antarctic Peninsula where it occurs at depths of 5 to 770 metres (16 to 2,526 ft). This species grows to a length of 72 centimetres (28 in) TL. It is of minor importance to commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its genus.
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87329.