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Gobionotothen
Sign in to saveGobionotothen is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
Species
Humped Rockcod
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyNototheniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Nototheniidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica
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- Parent taxon
- Nototheniidae
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- Gobionotothen gibberifrons 72700537.jpg
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Gobionotothen is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Gobionotothen was first formally described in 1976 by the Russian ichthyologist Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin with the type species designated as Notothenia gibberifrons which was described by the Swedish naturalist Einar Lönnberg in 1905 with its type locality given as South Georgia. Some authorities place this taxon in the subfamily Nototheniinae, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not include subfamilies in the Nototheniidae. The name of the genus is a compound of gobio meaning "goby", referring to the goby-like form of these species and notothen, indicating that it is a nothothen.
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