Species Pachycara brachycephalum (Pappenheim, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycodes brachycephalum Pappenheim, P. 1912. Die Fische der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903: l. Die Fische der Antarktis und Subantarktis. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition 1901–1903 13(Zool. 5): 163-182 [179, Pl. 10 (fig. 3)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB 18929 (Possible lectotype), Gauss winter station, Wilhelm II Coast, Antarctica.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1913.4.15 [or 23].58-59; SMNS 4605; ZISP 37929 (ex ZMB 18935); ZMB 24093 (ex ZMB 18929); ZMH 8156; ASUM A5.23.2.1a.

Generic Combinations

• Pachycara brachycephalum (Pappenheim, 1912).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Ocean: circum-Antarctica

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

General References

Anderson, M.E. 1988. Biology of the Antarctic Seas 19. Studies on the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the Southern Hemisphere. I. The Antarctic and Subantarctic regions. Antarctic Research Series 47: 59-113 [74]

Anderson, M.E. 1989. Review of the eelpout genus Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae), with descriptions of six new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 46(10): 221-242 [240]

Anderson, M.E. 1990. Zoarcidae. pp. 257-276 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. [274]

Anderson, M.E. 1994. Systematics and osteology of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 60: 1-120 [120]

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. [648]

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