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GBIF·2389969speciesAnimalia3,426 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyChannichthyidae
  5. ›genusChannichthys
Channichthys rhinoceratus
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Unicorn icefish

Channichthys rhinoceratus Richardson, 1844

Also calledDraco rinoceronte (spa) · Grande gueule (fra) · Grande-gueule à long nez (fra) · Kerguéleni jääkala (est) · Krokodylec (pol) · Langsnudet isfisk (dan) · Nosorogaya Belokovka (rus) · Peixe-gelo-bicudo (por) · Носорогая белокровка (rus) · Обыкновенная носорожья белокровка (rus) · ワニグチコオリウオ (jpn)

First described in: Richardson, J. (1844). Description of a new genus of gobioid fish. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series).</em> v. 13 (no. 86) (art. 52): 461-462.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2389969.