Akarotaxis nudiceps ...

• Main Authors: Corso, Andrew D., McDowell, Jan R., Biesack, Ellen E., Muffelman, Sarah C., Hilton, Eric J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Perciformes; Bathydraconidae; Akarotaxis; Akarotaxis nudiceps; Antarctic; Hilton; Lazarev; Lazarev Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10945957; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10945957

4.1 | Early life history of A. nudiceps To our knowledge, there are four reports of the early life stages of A. nudiceps in the literature. Kellermann (1990) describes two transforming juveniles (37.0 and 39.1 mm L S) that were caught during early March and mid-February in the northeastern Weddell Sea. Fin-ray and vertebrate counts for the 39.1 mm L S specimen were reported as D 26+, A 25+, P 24, V 49. The pigmentation for these transforming specimens was described as being uniformly heavy on the body and lighter on the head. Voskoboinikova (2001) also describes one juvenile (43.1 mm L S) caught in the Weddell Sea during late February. Fin-ray counts for this specimen were D 29, A 25, P 22, and the heavy pigmentation had begun transitioning to a greyish-brown coloration. Flores et al. (2008) found one larva from the Lazarev Sea during April 2004, but the description, length and location were not reported. Finally, Vacchi et al. (1999) collected a small, 14 mm L S specimen that they identified as A. nudiceps ... : Published as part of Corso, Andrew D., McDowell, Jan R., Biesack, Ellen E., Muffelman, Sarah C. & Hilton, Eric J., 2023, Larval stages of the Antarctic dragonfish Akarotaxis nudiceps (Waite, 1916), with comments on the larvae of the morphologically similar species Prionodraco evansii Regan 1914 (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae), pp. 395-402 in Journal of Fish Biology 102 (2) on page 399, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15267, http://zenodo.org/record/10928653 ...