Icefish

Icefish may mean:

Fish

  • Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefish or white-blooded fish of the Antarctic region, so-named for their cold habitat and clear (colorless) blood without hemoglobin
  • Nototheniidae, the cod icefish or notothens of the Antarctic region, whose members have red, hemoglobin-rich blood
    • Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), a species of Notothen found in cold southern waters
  • Salangidae, the icefish or noodlefish, a family of small, transparent or semi-transparent ("ice-like") fishes found in fresh, brackish and marine waters in East Asia and the northwestern Pacific Ocean

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