Species Prionodraco evansii Regan, 1914

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• Prionodraco evansii Regan, C.T. 1914. Diagnoses of new marine fishes collected by the British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13(2): 11-17 [13].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1913.12.4.177-180 (Depth 158-207 fathoms. 4 specimens), Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica [74°25'S, 179°03'E; also 76°56'S, 164°12'S and 77°13'S, 164°18'E].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Island and throughout Australian Antarctic territory; Southern Ocean, circum-Antractic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 70-550 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]

Gon, O. 1990. Bathydraconidae. pp. 364-380 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. [376]

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. [368]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	NOTOTHENIOIDEI	14-Jun-2012	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)