Mackerel icefish

Mackerel icefish
Mackerel icefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Notothenioidei
Family: Channichthyidae
Genus: Champsocephalus
Species: C. gunnari
Binomial name
Champsocephalus gunnari
Lönnberg, 1905 [1]

The mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, is a fish found only in the Southern Ocean. They are mainly to be found near Heard and McDonald Islands, Îles Kerguelen and islands in the south Atlantic such as South Georgia.[2]

Due to overfishing, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) considers the species "depleted".[3]

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