Channichthyidae - Wikipedia
The crocodile icefish or white-blooded fish comprise a family (Channichthyidae) of notothenioid fish found in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. They are the only known vertebrates to lack hemoglobin in their blood as adults. [2]
Icefish | Antarctic, Coldwater, Adaptations | Britannica
icefish, any of several different fishes, among them certain members of the family Channichthyidae, or Chaenichthyidae (order Perciformes), sometimes called crocodile icefish because of the shape of the snout. They are also called white-blooded fish, because they lack red blood cells and hemoglobin.
The Evolutionary Quirk That Allows Antarctica's Icefish To …
2021年11月4日 · Unique adaptations allow the ambush predator to thrive in an environment that would kill most other organisms. In Antarctica, the aptly-named icefish survives extreme cold thanks to an unusual...
Antarctic Icefish Characteristics and Facts - ThoughtCo
2019年7月11日 · Learn some cool facts about the Antarctic Icefish, which is a type of fish which lives in cold waters around Antarctica — and has white blood.
How Does The Antarctic Icefish Live Without Red Blood Cells?
2019年3月1日 · All vertebrates have red blood cells—that is, except for a small family of fish from the notothenoid family known collectively as “icefish.” These Antarctic-dwelling fish have translucent blood, white hearts, and have somehow adapted to live without red blood cells or …
Antarctic blackfin icefish genome reveals adaptations to extreme ...
2019年2月25日 · Phylogenomic analysis revealed that Antarctic fish of the teleost suborder Notothenioidei, including icefishes, diverged from the stickleback lineage about 77 million years ago and subsequently...
Antarctic icefish have translucent bodies and blood - EarthSky
2012年3月14日 · Antarctic icefishes – which are within the Channichthyidae family – are an example of the wondrous possibilities that can arise during evolution in a cold environment. Icefishes are aptly named...
Chionodraco rastrospinosus - Wikipedia
The ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus) is a fish of the family Channichthyidae. [3] [4] It lives in the cold waters off Antarctica and is known for having transparent haemoglobin-free blood. [5] [6] C. rastrospinosus live in the Southern Ocean up to a depth of 1 km. They are most commonly found on the seabed at 200–400 m.
Antarctic icefishes (Channichthyidae): a unique family of …
2005年8月9日 · Icefish (Channichthyidae, ‘white-blooded’ fish) form a family within the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, the most predominant Antarctic suborder of demersal fish (Dettaï and Lecointre 2004). They are unique among fish in that they possess no haemoglobin (Ruud 1954), one of the key innovation in notothenioids fish (Eastman 2005).
Fish survival in the extreme cold - British Antarctic Survey
2023年6月30日 · Notothenioids are a unique group of fish species. They live in the cold waters below the sea ice of Antarctica, which is largely isolated from the rest of the marine world by a circular current around the continent. The fish are remarkable in many ways.