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Southern driftfish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Centrolophidae
Genus: Pseudoicichthys
Parin & Permitin, 1969
Species: P. australis
Binomial name
Pseudoicichthys australis
Haedrich, 1966

The southern driftfish or ragfish, Pseudoicichthys australis, is a species of medusafish. The Catalog of Fishes places it in the monospecific genus Pseudoicichthys, but as of 2024 FishBase retains it in the genus Icichthys together with I. lockingtoni. It is 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

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Centrolophidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the family Centrolophidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Icichthys australis". FishBase. November 2024 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
Taxon identifiers
Icichthys australis


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