• Dissostichus Smitt, F.A. 1898. Poissons de l'expédition scientifique à la Terre de Feu. II. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 24(5): 1-80 [3].

  Type species:

   Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898 by monotypy.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern oceans, Southern Ocean, circum-Antarctic

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

History of changes

• Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, F.A. 1898. Poissons de l'expédition scientifique à la Terre de Feu. II. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 24(5): 1-80 [4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NRMS 3235, Puerto Toro; Lago Toaia, Tierra del Fuego, southwestern Atlantic [55°24'S, 68°17'W]; NRMS 3236.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Sub-Antarctic Islands including Macquarie Island (54°35'S, 158°58'E) and east of Heard and MacDonald Islands (52°53'S, 74°44'E), possibly recorded from Southern Ocean (south of 60°) including Prydz Bay, but these records could be misidentifications of D. mawsoni; Southern oceans (also NW Atlantic), sub-Antarctic

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Demersal.

Extra Ecological Information

Known from depths 70 - 1500 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. [286]

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. [123]

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

• Dissostichus mawsoni Norman, J.R. 1937. Fishes. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1(2): 49-88 figs 1-11 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1937.9.21.123, Off MacRobertson Land, Antarctica [66°45'S, 62°03'E].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Records throughout Australian Antarctic Territory; Southern Ocean (to South Orkney Islands, occasionaly in sub-Antarctic waters), circum-Antarctic

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Demersal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths of 88 - 1600 m.

General References

Abe, T. & Iwami, T. 1989. Notes on fishes from the stomachs of whales taken in the Antarctic. II. On Dissostichus and Ceratias, with an appendix (Japanese names of important Antarctic fishes). Proceedings of the National Institute of Polar Research Symposium on Polar Biology, Tokyo 2: 78-82 [79]

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. [287]

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. [119]

History of changes