Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyChannichthyidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Channichthyidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, AM
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, Australia
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thumbnail|Cryodraco atkinsoni
Cryodraco is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. They are found in the Southern Ocean. While C. antarcticus has minor commercial importance, C. atkinsoni and C. pappenheimi are of no interest to commercial fisheries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cryodraco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.