Species Bathydraco macrolepis Boulenger, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathydraco macrolepis Boulenger, G.A. 1907. Fishes. National Antarctic Expedition, Natural History, Zoology 2(4): 1-5 [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1906.5.8.70 (Depth 252 fathoms), Southwest of Balleny Island, Antarctica.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

One record from Prydz Bay (66°S, 77°59'E), Australian Antarctic Territory, but also from the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea; Southern Ocean, probably Circum-Antarctic

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Disjunct depth range: 450-950 m, and 1750-2100 m (DeWitt 1985).

 

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 [S98]

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 [17]

Gon, O. 1990. Bathydraconidae. pp. 364-380 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. [368]

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. [349]

 

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)