Cryodraco antarcticus

Cryodraco antarcticus, the long-fingered icefish, is a demersal species of crocodile icefish only found in deep waters of the Southern Ocean. It is found near the South Orkney Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula, the Weddell, Bellinghausen, Ross and Davis seas at depths of 90 to 600 m (295 to 1970 ft).[1]

Cryodraco antarcticus
Illustration by French ichthyologist J.C. Hureau
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Channichthyidae
Genus: Cryodraco
Species:
C. antarcticus
Binomial name
Cryodraco antarcticus
Dollo, 1900

This species is pale greyish-brown with 5-6 dark cross-bars on its body and dusky-tipped pelvic fins. It is distinguished by the elongate shape of its pelvic fins, which are blackish in the pelagic juveniles. This species feeds on fishes and krill (studies from 1982 to 1984 revealed mostly fishes and Antarctic krill)[2]and can grow up to 39.3 cm (15.5 in). The larvae have a long late winter pelagic phase. It is of minor importance to commercial fisheries.[1]

References
  1. "Cryodraco antarcticus, Long-fingered icefish : fisheries". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  2. In: (pp392-394) Gon, O. and Heemstra, P.C.(eds). 1990. Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B.Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown.


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