Antarctic fish is a common name for a variety of fish that inhabit the Southern Ocean. There are relatively few families in this region, the most species-rich being the Liparidae (snailfishes), followed by Nototheniidae (cod icefishes).[1] The latter is one of eight different families that belong to the suborder Notothenioidei of the order Perciformes. They are also called notothenioids, but this name is also used to describe the other three, non-Antarctic families and some of the non-Antarctic genera in the mainly Antarctic families belonging to the suborder.
Antarctic fish are best known for their uses in studying adaptive radiation, the ecological process that causes the rapid development of several different species from one common ancestor of this fishes. These studies have been done using genetics, phylogeny, study of paleontology, and combinations of these fields to determine the sister lineage of the Antarctic fish.
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Antarcticfish is a common name for a variety of fish that inhabit the Southern Ocean. There are relatively few families in this region, the most species-rich...
between non-Antarctic and Antarctic species have revealed different ecological processes and genetic differences between the two groups of fish, such as...
The Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), also known as the Antarctic cod, is a large, black or brown fish found in very cold (subzero) waters of...
ISSN 0022-0949. PMID 16651546. Kock, KH (2005). "Antarctic icefishes (Channichthyidae): a unique family of fishes. A review, Part I". Polar Biology. 28 (11):...
krill, squid and pelagic fishes. Prey range increases with maturity. As adults, both species consume a variety of fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans...
The Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica), or Antarctic herring, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae...
Albatrosses Antarctic petrels Whales Fish, such as Antarctic icefish, Antarctic toothfish Squid, including the colossal squid Antarctic krill Most of...
fishes of the family Channichthyidae. See Icefish (disambiguation). Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes, is a family of ray-finned fishes,...
cod icefishes. It is widely spread around the Antarctic continent. Like other Antarctic notothenioid fishes, N. coriiceps evolved in the stable, ice-cold...
ISSN 0012-8252. Eastman JT (January 2005). "The nature of the diversity of Antarcticfishes". Polar Biology. 28 (2): 93–107. doi:10.1007/s00300-004-0667-4. ISSN 1432-2056...
suborder of fishes that accounts for 90% of the fish fauna on the Antarctic continental shelf. Icefishes, also called white-blooded fishes, are a unique...
species. Contrary to the hypothesis of reduced glycolytic capacity in Antarcticfish as an adaptation to low temperatures, findings revealed similar increases...
fishes, and early sharks, earning the Devonian the epithet "the age of fishes". Fishes are a paraphyletic group, since any clade containing all fish,...
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an overseas territory (French: Territoire d'outre-mer...
Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic...
Ouzouf-Costa, C.; Hureau, J-C (1997). "Molecular phylogeny of the Antarcticfishes: paraphyly of the Bovichitidae and no indication for the monophyly...
ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, which is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Widely distributed from the Arctic to Antarctic Oceans...
(Dissostichus eleginoides), also known as Chilean sea bass, mero, icefish, and Antarctic cod, is a species of notothen found in cold waters (1–4 °C or 34–39 °F)...
may mean: Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefish or white-blooded fish of the Antarctic region, so-named for their cold habitat and clear (colorless) blood...
of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate...
69°30′S 65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W / -69.500; -65.000 The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina...
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. It is a small, swimming crustacean that...
largest member being Megalocranchia fisheri. It is sometimes called the Antarctic cranch squid or giant squid (not to be confused with the giant squid in...
Antarctic krill, fish, and small squid. They feed while swimming but can dive from both the surface and the air. Captain James Cook saw the Antarctic...
weight of 60 kg. Antarctic butterfish have a dark blue body above and lighter blue below with large eyes (another name for this fish is big eye). Larger...
The Antarctic tern is an opportunistic feeder that mostly eats small fishes as well as some crustaceans like Antarctic krill. It usually fishes gregariously...
predominantly ingests small to medium-sized bony fishes. It chases down pelagic fishes such as lancet fish, mackerel, pilchards, herring, and sauries, and...
ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in all the world's oceans except for the Antarctic Ocean....
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