Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
Other Names: Beardfish, Berndt's Barbudo Fish, Deepsea Moi, Pacific Beardfish
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A dusky greenish beardfish becoming silvery below, with a dusky caudal fin.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2017, Polymixia berndti in Fishes of Australia, accessed 28 May 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1388
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
More Info
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Distribution |
Northwest Shelf,Western Australia, and off Raine Island, Queensland, to off about Byron Bay, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific. Inhabits sandy and muddy areas. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin IV-V, 28-31; Anal fin IV, 14-16. |
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Species Citation |
Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 23(2): 616, pl. 78. Type locality: Honolulu market, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
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Resources |
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
References
Gilbert, C.H. 1905. The deep-sea fishes. In, Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 23(2): 575-713 figs 230-276 pls 66-101
Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.
Kotlyar, A.N. 1992. A new species of the genus Polymixia from the submarine Kyushu-Palau Ridge, and notes on other representatives of the genus (Polymixiidae, Beryciformes). Journal of Ichthyology 1993, 33(3): 30–49
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.
