Busakhin's Beardfish, Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar 1992
Busakhin's Beardfish, Polymixia busakhini. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Polymixia busakhini in Fishes of Australia, accessed 26 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1389
Busakhin's Beardfish, Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar 1992
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Distribution |
Off Shark Bay to off the Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, and north Queensland, to off Wattamolla, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the subtropical, southern Indo-west Pacific. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin V, 33-36; Anal fin IV, 15-16; Vertebrae 29. |
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Fisheries |
Taken as bycatch in commercial trawls. |
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Species Citation |
Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar 1992, Voprosy Ikhtiologii 32(6): 22. Type locality: Western Indian Ocean, depth 650-660 m. [33°04´S, 43°52´E]. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
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Resources |
Busakhin's Beardfish, Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar 1992
References
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). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 32(6): 11-26 (in Russian; English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 1993, 33(3): 30–49.)
Kotlyar, A.N. 1993. Beryciform fishes from the western Indian Ocean collected in cruise of R/V "Vityaz". Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Imeni P.P. Shirshova = Transactions of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 128: 179-198.
Roberts, C.D. 201. 95 Family Polymixiidae, pp. 698-700, in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152.
