Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Notothenioidei

Family: Artedidraconidae

Genus: Artedidraco

Species: Artedidraco mirus Lönnberg, 1905

Climate Zone

Location

• Southern Ocean: known only from South Georgia (Antarctic waters).

Biology

Sublittoral and on continental shelf from 18-320 m, with maximum abundance at less than 200 m. Main food consists of mysids , with substantial amounts of errant polychaetes, gammaridean amphipods and some unidentified polychaetes; to a lesser extent, isopods (Ref. 5181).

Habitat

demersal

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless