Southern driftfish
Species of ray-finned fish
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The southern driftfish or ragfish, Pseudoicichthys australis, is a species of medusafish. The Catalog of Fishes places it in the monospecific genus Pseudoicichthys,[2] but as of 2024 FishBase retains it in the genus Icichthys together with I. lockingtoni.[3] It is found around the world in all southern oceans between latitudes 50° S and 60° S, from the surface down to 2,000 m. Its length is from 35 to 80 cm.
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Centrolophidae |
| Genus: | Pseudoicichthys Parin & Permitin, 1969[1] |
| Species: | P. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudoicichthys australis Haedrich, 1966 | |
