Classification / Names
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Zoarcidae (Eelpouts) > Lycodinae
Etymology: Santelmoa: Named after the Spanish ship San Telmo lost in the 'Terra Australis Incognita' (in Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, according to Pinochet de la Barra 1993) on 2-4 September 1819, in honour of the 644 Spanish shipwrecked..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino benthopelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 1056 - 1837 m (Ref. 87519). Polar; 64°S - 69°S, 61°W - 87°W
Antarctic : Antarcic Peninsula and Bellingshausen Sea (Ref. 87519).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 35.1 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 87519); 30.5 cm (female)
Short description
Morfologia | Morfometria
A species of Santelmoa as defined by Matallanas (2010a) with the following combination of characters: mouth inferior; vertical folds on posterior end of the upper lip and on the lower lip lobe; oral valve nearly reaching the anterior edge of vomer; two posterior nasal pores; lateral line double with ventral and medio-lateral branches; palatine teeth in single row; dorsal fin rays 108–111; anal fin rays 93–94; pectoral fin rays 18–19; vertebrae asymmetrical, 26–27 + 90–93 ¼ 116–119; gill slit extending ventrally to just lower end of pectoral fin base; two pyloric caeca barely produced; pseudobranch filaments 3–5, elongated. Scales, ventral fins and vomerine teeth present (Ref. 87519).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Matallanas, J., 2011. Description of Santelmoa elvirae sp. nov. (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from the Southern Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, doi:10.1017/S002531541000216X (Ref. 87519)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
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