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Histioichthys glacialis

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

Histioichthys glacialis flabellirostrata is a species of alien fish in Fish of Ganymede: a torpedo with a sail dorsal fin, Ice Shelf colouring, a fan tail and a beak mouth. It lives in under the ice, 0 m to 300 m under Ganymede’s ice. It was first found by kok on 3 November 2026.

At a glance

Body planTorpedo
Dorsal finSail
ColouringIce Shelf
TailFan
MouthBeak
Home depthUnder the ice (0 m–300 m), diving level 1
DietHerbivore
First fish’s rarityUncommon
First found3 November 2026 by kok
Players who have found it2
Swimming today2 fish

What the name means

Histioichthys glacialis means roughly “icy sail-fish”: from histio- (sail) and ichthys (fish), 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 torpedo 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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