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from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of acanthopterygian fishes, typified by the genus Chænichthys, and including those Notothenoidea which have the snout produced and spatuliform, the body mostly naked, and two dorsal fins, the first of which is short and the second long. The few species known are confined to the antarctic seas.
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