Gargoyle fish
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The gargoyle fish or small-eye rattail, Caelorinchus mirus, is a rattail
of the genus Caelorinchus
, found around southeast Australia
and between New Zealand
and the Chatham Islands
.
Rattail
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae...
of the genus Caelorinchus
Caelorinchus
Caelorinchus is a genus of rattails currently with 114 described species.-Species:* Surgeon grenadier, Caelorinchus acanthiger* Caelorinchus acantholepis* Aconcagua grenadier, Caelorinchus aconcagua* Caelorinchus acutirostris...
, found around southeast Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and between New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and the Chatham Islands
Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands are an archipelago and New Zealand territory in the Pacific Ocean consisting of about ten islands within a radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island. Their name in the indigenous language, Moriori, means Misty Sun...
.