MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY ON NOTOTHENIOIDS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, No 5

ST. PETERSBURG

Editor–in–Chief - A.F. Alimov - Director of the Zoological Institute RAS

Editorial Board:

V.V. Khlebovich, Ya.I. Starobogatov, S.D. Grebel’nyi,

T.A. Asanovich, Yu.S. Balashov, V.Ja. Berger, I.S. Darevsky,

V.R. Dolnik, S.Yu. Kuznetsov, À.V. Gorokhov

Editor of the volume:

B.A. Sheiko, V.V. Fedorov

Reviewers:

G.P. Rudenko, N.V. Maximovich

Morphological data on Antarctic notothenioid fishes, humphead notothen Gobionotothen gibberifrons (Lonnberg) from different islands of the Scotia Sea, marbled notothen Notothenia rossii Richardson from the Kerguelen Islands (fam. Nototheniidae), and sailfin planderfish Histiodraco velifer (Regan) (fam. Artedidraconidae) from the Davis, Cosmonaut, Ross, Cooperation, and Weddell Seas based on materials of Russian, Polish, and German Antarctic expeditions, are provided. The phenomenon of the iterative evolution taking place at the diversification of species of the genus Gobionotothen is discussed.
This publication is financed by the State Program “Study and Investigation of the Antarctic” (project No 16) and grants of the Russian Fund of the Fundamental Research (No 00-04-48838 and No 00-15-07794).

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