Description

Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 34 - 37; Anal soft rays: 33 - 35. Body with two series of large, partly confluent, irregular blackish spots, cheek with two oblique dark stripes, a blackish spot on spinous dorsal (Ref. 11892).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Notothenioidei

Family: Nototheniidae

Genus: Nototheniops

Species: Nototheniops mizops (Günther, 1880)

Climate Zone

Biology

Spawns in May-June, sometimes to July. Egg diameter greater than 1.65 mm (Ref. 45488).

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless