Paranotothenia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. These fishes are native to the Southern Ocean.
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Paranotothenia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. These fishes are native to the Southern Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Paranotothenia was first formally described as a genus in 1976 by the Soviet ichthyologist Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin, it was originally a monotypic genus with Gadus magellanicus, which had been described in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster with the type locality given as the Straits of Magellan. as its type species. Some authorities place this genus in the subfamily Nototheniinae, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not include subfamilies in the Nototheniidae. The genus name is a compound of para meaning "near" or "similar to" and Notothenia, the type genus of Nototheniidae, from which it differs by being short snouted and having crests above the eye.
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