Species Notothenia coriiceps Richardson, 1844

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• Notothenia coriiceps Richardson, J. 1844. Ichthyology. pp. 1-16 pls 1-6, 7-8 (parts), 9-10 in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839–43. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 2. [5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1965.7.3.1, Coasts of Kerguelan's Land and Auckland Islands, New Zealand.

Introduction

A widely distributed (circum-Antarctic) shallow water species that has been recorded from Adelie Land and The Ross Sea and is likely to be present in Australian Antarctic Territory.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Island (54°35'S, 158°55'E) and Heard Island (53°07'S, 73°20'E) and probably throughout Australian Antarctic Territory; sub-Antarctic Islands of Southern oceans, Southern Ocean, circum-Antarctic.

Other Regions

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 0 - 550 m, but most common in less than 200 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. [304]

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. [140]

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