Species Bathydraco scotiae Dollo, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathydraco scotiae Dollo, L. 1906. Bathydraco scotiae, Poisson abyssal nouveau recueilli par l'Expédition Antarctique Nationale Ecossaise. Note préliminaire. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 26(2): 65-75 [Date published 29 Mar] [69].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1912.7.1.52 (Depth 1410 fathoms), Off Coats Land, Weddell Sea, Antarctic [71°22'S, 16°34'W]; NMSZ 1921.143.0475 (2 specimens).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Prydz Bay (66°S, 77°59'E), but probably circum-Antarctic and present throughout Australian Antarctic Territory; Southern Ocean (South Sandwich Islands), circum-Antarctic.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 2100-2950 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 [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. [369]

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. [354]

 

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)