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Akarotaxis nudiceps (Waite, 1916)

Description

Common Names

  • 裸头龙鰧 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 裸頭龍鰧 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Perciformes/Notothenioidei

    Family: Bathydraconidae

    Genus: Akarotaxis

    Species: Akarotaxis nudiceps (Waite, 1916)

    Climate Zone

  • bathydemersal

    • Location

  • Southern Ocean: Antarctic continental shelf and west of Adelaide Island at the Antarctic Peninsula.

    • Biology

    Spawning may take place during middle to late summer. Distinguished from all other bathydraconid species by the short tubular section of the upper lateral line and the absence of the coronal pore.

    Habitat

    bathydemersal