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Gargoyle fish

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2596159 ↗
Source-derived summary

The gargoyle fish or small-eye rattail (Coelorinchus mirus) is a species of rattail found around southeast Australia and between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coelorinchus mirus". FishBase. June 2012 version.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gargoyle fish” as species of fish. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gargoyle, fish and species can be independently traced.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2596159. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gargoyle fish” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.