''Ioichthys kashkini'' is a species of
barreleye
Barreleyes, also known as spook fish (a name also applied to several species of chimaera), are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and I ...
known only from the
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...
where it has been recovered from a depth of .
Names
The scientific name is ''Ioichthys kashkini''. Species in this family are commonly known as barreleyes or spookfishes.
Size
This species grows to a length of
SL.
Location
''Ioichthys kashkini'' can be found in a marine environment and in a tropical climate. They are distributed in Western Indian Ocean and in the Arabian Sea.
References
External links
Arabian Sea
Fish described in 2004
Monotypic fish genera
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