icefish
Speech parts
1. icefish - Noun
2. icefish - Verb
Meaning
Any member of notothenioid family Channichthyidae; these Antarctic fishes are named for the lack of hemoglobin in their blood
The noodlefish (family Salangidae in order Osmeriformes).
icefish (third-person singular simple present icefishes, present participle icefishing, simple past and past participle icefished)
Alternative form of ice fish
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The former is a red-blooded animal while the latter belongs to icefish family, whose 16 species have no hemoglobin in their blood, a disadvantage just about anywhere else but in the oxygen-rich waters of the Southern Ocean.
The icefish obtain oxygen in physical solution through their gills and directly through their skin.
O’Brien thought part of the answer might involve the marked differences between the mitochondrial structures of the icefish and other notothenioids.