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South Georgia Icefish

Pseudochaenichthys georgianus

Classification

Pseudochaenichthys is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. Its only member is Pseudochaenichthys georgianus, the South Georgia icefish, which is found in the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy Pseudochaenichthys was first described as a genus in 1937 by the English ichthyologist John Roxborough Norman when he was describing its only species Pseudochaenichthys georgianus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 1