Species Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt, 1962

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• Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt, H. H. 1962. A new Antarctic nototheniid fish with notes on two recently described Nototheniiformes. Copeia 4: 826-833 [829].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS(SU) 59634 (Dead at surface), Off Pram Point, Ross Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica [77°53'S, 166°44'E].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Prydz Bay but probably throughout Australian Antarctic Territory, also recorded from Islands of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and the Ross Sea; Southern Ocean, circum-Antarctic.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Known to a depth of 850 m.

 

General References

Balushkin, A.V. 2000. Morphology, classification, and evolution of notothenioid fishes of the Southern Ocean (Notothenioidei, Perciformes). Journal of Ichthyology 40(Supplement 1): 74-109 [S97]

DeWitt, H.H., Heemstra, P.C. & Gon, O. 1990. Nototheniidae. pp. 279-332 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. [283]

Eastman, J.T. & Eakin, R.R. 2000. An updated species list for notothenioid fish (Perciformes; Notothenioidei), with comments on Antarctic species. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research 48(1): 11-20 [15]

Miller, R.G. 1993. History and Atlas of the Fishes of the Antarctic Ocean. Carson City, Nevada : Foresta Institute for Ocean and Mountain Studies i-xx + 792 pp. [249]

Trunov, I.A. 1999. New data on species of fish from subantarctic and Antarctic waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Ichthyology 39(7): 488-497 [English translation]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	NOTOTHENIOIDEI	14-Jun-2012	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)