Maori Chief

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Notothenia angustata, the Maori chief or black cod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean Taxonomy Notothenia angustata was first formally described in 1875 by the English-born New Zealand scientist Frederick Wollaston Hutton with the type locality given as Dunedin in New Zealand. The specific name angustata means "narrowed" a reference to the relatively narrow head of this species.

El jefe maorí (Notothenia angustata) es un pez perciforme de la familia Nototheniidae. Es un pez rayado parecido al bacalao, que vive en el océano sureño junto a la Antártida y en el sur del Atlántico. Mide de 30 a 65 centímetros y es pescado comercialmente.