• Chionobathyscus Andriashev, A. P. 1978. Trematomus tokarevi, sp. n. -- a new species of the family Nototheniidae (Pisces, Nototheniidae) from deep waters near the Antarctic Continent. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 18(4): 579-604 [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 18 (no. 4):521-526] [6].

  Type species:

   Chionobathyscus dewitti Andriashev & Neyelov, 1978 (also monotypic) by original designation.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Ocean, circum-Antarctic

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

History of changes

• Chionobathyscus dewitti Andriashev, A.P. & Neyelov, A.V. 1978. A new whiteblooded fish (Chionobathyscus dewitti, gen. et sp. n., fam. Channichthyidae) from the continental slope of the east Antarctic. pp. 5-12 in O. A. Skarlato. Morphology and systematics of fish. pp. [In Russian] [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIL 43260 (Depth 850 meters), Eastern Antarctic Ocean [67°31'S, 33°05'W].
  Paratype(s) ZIL 43260A; ZIL 43262-63 (43262, 2 specimens; 43263, 1 specimen).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded throughout Australian Antarctic Territory; Southern Ocean, circum-Antarctic

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 500 - 2000 m.

General References

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]

Iwami, T. & Kock, K.-H. 1990. Channichthyidae. pp. 381-399 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. [388]

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. [430]

History of changes