''Icichthys'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

medusafish Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. Young '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' specimens are abundant in the coastal w ...

es that are native to the eastern

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

and the northern

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Icichthys australis The southern driftfish or ragfish, ''Icichthys australis'', is a medusafish of the genus ''Icichthys ''Icichthys'' is a genus of medusafishes that are native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean. Species There are curren ...

'' Haedrich, 1966 (Southern driftfish) * '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880 (Medusafish)

References

Centrolophidae {{Perciformes-stub