Gargoyle fish

Gargoyle fish
Drawing by Alan Riverstone McCulloch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Macrouridae
Subfamily: Macrourinae
Genus: Caelorinchus
Species: C. mirus
Binomial name
Caelorinchus mirus
McCulloch, 1926

The gargoyle fish or small-eye rattail, Caelorinchus mirus, is a rattail of the genus Caelorinchus, found around southeast Australia and between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.

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