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Chionobathyscus dewitti (Crocodile icefish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Chionobathyscus dewitti, is a species of crocodile icefish native to the Southern Ocean, where it occurs at depths of 500 to 2,000 metres (1,600 to 6,600 ft). The species, which grows to a length of 60 centimetres (24 in) TL, is the only known member of its genus.
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Prey / Diet

Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (Nichol's lanternfish)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Arctocephalus gazella (Antarctic Fur Seal)1
Gymnodraco acuticeps (Ploughfish)1
Lampris immaculatus (Moonfish)1

Predators

Dissostichus mawsoni (Antarctic blenny)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1"New data on the diet of deep-sea icefish Chionobathyscus dewitti (Channichthyidae) in the Ross Sea in 2010", A.F. Petrov, Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2011, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 718–720.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0