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Issue: Vol. 2196 No. 1: 13 Aug. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-08-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2196.1.6
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 15

First records of the rare eelpout Lycenchelys xanthoptera Anderson, 1991 (Teleostei, Zoarcidae) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Fish Teleostei Zoarcidae

Abstract

Six eelpout species (Zoarcidae) are currently known from the Ross Sea and adjacent areas: Dieidolycus leptodermatus Anderson, 1988; Lycodichthys dearborni (DeWitt, 1962); Ophthalmolycus bothriocephalus (Pappenheim, 1912); Pachycara brachycephalum (Pappenheim, 1912); Seleniolycus pectoralis Møller & Stewart, 2006 and Seleniolycus robertsi Møller & Stewart, 2006 (Anderson, 1990, 2006; Møller & Stewart, 2006). Zoarcidae is thereby one of the most diverse non-Notothenoid fish families in the Ross Sea.

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