Artedidraconinae A. P. Andriashev 1967 ...

• Main Authors: Parker, Elyse, Near, Thomas J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Perciformes; Artedidraconidae; Antarctic; Eastman; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7858579; https://zenodo.org/record/7858579

Artedidraconinae A. P. Andriashev 1967: 403 Type species.— Artedidraco mirus Lönnberg (1905: 40–41). Definition.— The least inclusive clade that includes Artedidraco mirus Lönnberg (1905: 40–41), Neodraco skottsbergi (Lönnberg, 1905: 48–49), and Dolloidraco longedorsalis Roule (1913: 16), but not Harpagifer bispinis (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801: 45). Morphological apomorphies.— (1) Presence of a mental barbel (Eakin, 1981; Balushkin, 2000), (2) five branchiostegal rays (Eakin, 1981; Balushkin, 2000), (3) opercle with a flattened hook (Eakin, 1981), (4) floating pleural ribs starting on 5 th to 8 th vertebrae, or absent (Eakin, 1981; Balushkin, 2000), and (5) four or five hypurals (Eakin, 1981). Composition.— There are 12 valid and distinct species of Artedidraconinae with three species of Artedidraco , two species of Neodraco , five species of Pogonophryne , Dolloidraco longedorsalis , and Histiodraco velifer . Eastman and Eakin (2021) list 27 species of Pogonophryne , but analysis of morphology and ... : Published as part of Parker, Elyse & Near, Thomas J., 2022, Phylogeny Reconciles Classification in Antarctic Plunderfishes, pp. 662-674 in Ichthyology & Herpetology 110 (4) on pages 665-667, DOI: 10.1643/i2021126, http://zenodo.org/record/7846951 ...