Species #32,762 of 42,840

Leiochaetodon glacialis

The first Leiochaetodon glacialis ever found, swimming live. Its hidden genes stay hidden.

Leiochaetodon glacialis flabellilata is a species of alien fish in Fish of Ganymede: a butterfly with a low dorsal fin, Ice Shelf colouring, a fan tail and a wide mouth. It lives in under the ice, 0 m to 300 m under Ganymede’s ice. It was first found by FrostAngler257 on 6 November 2026.

At a glance

Body planButterfly
Dorsal finLow
ColouringIce Shelf
TailFan
MouthWide
Home depthUnder the ice (0 m–300 m), diving level 1
DietHerbivore
First fish’s rarityCommon
First found6 November 2026 by FrostAngler257
Players who have found it7
Swimming today8 fish

What the name means

Leiochaetodon glacialis means roughly “icy smooth-bristle-tooth”: from leio- (smooth) and chaetodon (bristle-tooth), and glacialis (icy). Every species name is built from its genes: the dorsal fin and body plan give the genus, the colouring gives the species name, and the tail and mouth the last word.

How to find one

Dive to under the ice (it opens at diving level 1) and look for a butterfly with Ice Shelf colouring, or breed for it: you need all five of its traits to show at once, and some of them may be recessive, hidden in a parent’s second gene copy. The breeding screen shows the exact odds. See how fish genetics work.

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