Gargoyle fish
The gargoyle fish or small-eye rattail, Coelorinchus mirus, is a species of rattail found around southeast Australia and between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
| Gargoyle fish | |
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| Drawing by Allan Riverstone McCulloch | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Macrouridae |
| Subfamily: | Macrourinae |
| Genus: | Coelorinchus |
| Species: | C. mirus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coelorinchus mirus McCulloch, 1926 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Coelorinchus mirus" in FishBase. June 2012 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
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