Antarctic Horsefish, Zanclorhynchus spinifer Günther 1880
Other Names: Spiny Horsefish
An Antarctic Horsefish, Zanclorhynchus spinifer, from the Heard Island McDonald Island, AUS EEZ, March 2015. Source: Dale Maschette / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A brownish, to reddish-brown of purple horsefish with dark spots or mottling on the head and anterior part of body, a black bar from the soft dorsal fin to the anal fin and another at the base of the caudal fin, a black blotch or spot at base of first 2-3 dorsal-fin spines, a black bar at the base of the 6th to 7th dorsal spines that extends onto the ventral part of the body and the soft part of the anal fin, and a black bar on the middle of the caudal fin.
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Bray, D.J. 2023, Zanclorhynchus spinifer in Fishes of Australia, accessed 25 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5490
Antarctic Horsefish, Zanclorhynchus spinifer Günther 1880
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Distribution |
Widespread in the Southern Ocean (Prince Edward, Crozet, Kerguelen, Heard Island, Macquarie Island and the Kara-Dag Seamount north-east of the Prince Edward Islands). |
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Colour |
Post-larvae of 21 mm total length are uniformly silver-coloured with a characteristic black blotch on the pectoral fins. |
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Etymology |
The specific name spinifer is from the Latin spina (= thorn) and fera (= bearing), in reference to the head bones being “armed with spines”. |
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Species Citation |
Zanclorhynchus spinifer Günther 1880, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 1(6): 15, pl. 8 (fig. A). Type locality: Kerguelen Island. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2023 |
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Antarctic Horsefish, Zanclorhynchus spinifer Günther 1880
References
Andriashev, A.P. 1993. On the quadrupedal mode of locomotion of the Kerguelen congiopodid fish Zanchlorhynchus spinifer (Scorpaeniformes, Congiopodidae. Zoological Journal Moscow 72(9): 130-136 (in Russian, English summary)
Duhamel, G., Gasco, N. & Davaine, P. 2005. Poissons des îles Kerguelen et Crozet. Patrimoines naturels (M.N.H.N./S.P.N.) 63: 1-419
Duhamel, G. & Hautecoeur, M. 2009. Biomass, abundance and distribution of fish in the Kerguelen Islands EEZ (CCAMLR Statistical Division 58.5.1). CCAMLR Science 16: 1-32.
Günther, A. 1880. Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H.M.S Challenger, in the years 1872–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 1(6): 1-82 pls 1-32
Heemstra, P.C. & Duhamel, G. 1990. Congiopodidae. pp. 229-230 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141868
Ishii, N. & Imamura, H. 2008. Phylogeny of the family Congiopodidae (Perciformes: Scorpaenoidea), with a proposal of new classification. Ichthyological Research 55: 148–161.
Miller, R.G. 1993. History and atlas of the fishes of the Antarctic Ocean. Foresta Institute for Ocean and Mountain Studies. Carson City, Nevada. i-xx + 1-792.
Poss, S. 2010. Zanclorhynchus spinifer (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T154851A115243033. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154851A4651145.en. Downloaded on 20 March 2019.
Zhukov, M.Yu. & Balushkin, A.V. 2018. Description of a New subspecies Zanclorhynchus spinifer heracleus subsp. nov. from the Ridge of Hercules (Pacific-Antarctic Ridge). Journal of Ichthyology 58(1): 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945218010149
