Species Pagetopsis macropterus (Boulenger, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Champsocephalus macropterus Boulenger, G.A. 1907. Fishes. National Antarctic Expedition, Natural History, Zoology 2(4): 1-5 [3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1906.6.8.50-56 (stomach content: 7 specimens), near Cape Armitage, Ross Island, Victoria Land, Antarctica [77°30'S, 168°00'E]; ZMB 18956.

Generic Combinations

• Pagetopsis macropterus (Boulenger, 1907). —
  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. [396]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

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

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 5 - 655 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]

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. [396]

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. [400]

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