Echiodon

[[Genus Echiodon]] The genus Echiodon Thompson, 1837, comprises a group of 12 known species of pearlfishes found in a depth range of 18-2000m (Markle and Olney 1990; Williams and Machida 1992; Markle 1999). Echiodon species are mainly deep-pelagic forms, although Markle (1999) suggested at least som...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: M. Eric Anderson
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2005
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Carapidae
Echiodon
Southern Ocean
Austral
Tristan
Icefish
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6265013
https://zenodo.org/record/6265013
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Summary:[[Genus Echiodon]] The genus Echiodon Thompson, 1837, comprises a group of 12 known species of pearlfishes found in a depth range of 18-2000m (Markle and Olney 1990; Williams and Machida 1992; Markle 1999). Echiodon species are mainly deep-pelagic forms, although Markle (1999) suggested at least some may be facultative commensals (in benthic invertebrates like some other pearlfishes). Six of the 12 species of Echiodon are found in temperate waters of the Southern Ocean. During cruise ICEFISH-04 (May to July 2004) across the South Atlantic on RVIB NATHANIEL B. PALMER, a specimen of Echiodon was captured at the Tristan da Cunha Group. Originally thought by me to represent the circumglobal, austral E. cryomargarites Markle, Williams and Olney, 1983, it possesses several characters in combination that reveal it is unnamed. : Published as part of M. Eric Anderson, 2005, Description of a new species of Echiodon (Teleostei: Carapidae) from the South Atlantic Ocean., pp. 1-5 in Zootaxa 809 on page 1

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