The osteological development of four species of the Antarctic dragonfish (Pisces: Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae)

O.S. Voskoboinikova

Abstract. The osteological development of four species of the family Bathydraconidae: Psilodraco dreviceps (Gymnodraconinae), Prionodraco evansii, Parachaenichthys georgianus and P. charcoti (Bathydraconinae) has been examined with respect to the sequence of appearance of bones, morphogenesis and rate of ossification. Some considerable differences between Prionodraco and Parachaenichthys in the sequence of appearance of the ethmoidal bones and in morphogenesis of the neurocranium, splanchnocranium and pectoral fin are found. The rate of ossification in the bathydraconids in general is intermediate between those of the notothenids and channichthyids. Comparison of the rates of differentiation of skeleton in these three families of the notothenioids suggests the paedomorph character of evolution of the suborder Notothenioidei as a whole.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 1998, 7(1): 193–204 ▪ Published in print 25 June 1998

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