Artedidraconinae A. P. Andriashev 1967

• Main Authors: Parker, Elyse, Near, Thomas J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Perciformes; Artedidraconidae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7858579; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D5B246FFC9FFD3FC82F9CC58B33178

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 DNA sequences of ddRAD loci lead to the delimitation of only five described species in the clade (Parker et al., 2021). Based on analyses of morphology and DNA sequences of ddRAD loci presented in this study, we recognized three species of Artedidraco . We treat Artedidraco glareobarbatus (Eastman and Eakin, 1999) as a junior synonym of A. shackletoni (Waite, 1911). Pending additional morphological and molecular analyses, we suggest that the recognition of A. longibarbatus (Eakin et al., 2015) as a distinct species is unwarranted. 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