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Volodichthys

Volodichthys is a genus of snailfishes found in deep water, more than 750 m (2,460 ft), of southern oceans near Antarctica and southern South America. Its members were formerly included in the genus Careproctus.

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Volodichthys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Liparidae
Genus: Volodichthys
Balushkin, 2012
Type species
Volodichthys parini
Andriashev & Prirodina, 19901

Volodichthys is a genus of snailfishes found in deep water, more than 750 m (2,460 ft), of southern oceans near Antarctica and southern South America.23 Its members were formerly included in the genus Careproctus.3

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:345 6

  • Volodichthys catherinae (Andriashev & Stein, 1998)
  • Volodichthys herwigi (Andriashev, 1991)
  • Volodichthys parini (Andriashev & Prirodina, 1990)
  • Volodichthys smirnovi (Andriashev, 1991)
  • Volodichthys solovjevae Balushkin, 2012
References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Liparidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. Priede, I.G. (2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 262–263. ISBN 978-1-107-08382-0.
  3. Balushkin, A.V. (2012). "Volodichthys gen. nov. New Species of the Primitive Snailfish (Liparidae: Scorpaeniformes) of the Southern Hemisphere. Description of New Species V. solovjevae sp. nov. (Cooperation Sea, the Antarctic)". Journal of Ichthyology. 52 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1134/S0032945212010018.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Volodichthys". FishBase. December 2012 version.
  5. Koerber, S. (2023). "On some marine fishes reported from Argentina and Uruguay, hitherto unnoticed or incorrectly included by the local ichthyological communities". Historia Natural. tercera serie. 13 (2): 25–51.
  6. Duhamel, G.; Hulley, P.-A.; Causse, R.; Koubbi, P.; Vacchi, M.; Pruvost, P.; Vigetta, S.; Irisson, J.-O.; Mormède, S.; Belchier, M.; Dettai, A.; Detrich, H. W.; Gutt, J.; Jones, C. D.; Kock, K.-H.; Lopez Abellan, L. J.; Van de Putte, A. P. (2014). "Biogeographic patterns of fish". In De Broyer, C.; Koubbi, P.; Griffiths, H. J.; Raymond, B.; Udekem d’Acoz, C. d’ (eds.). Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. Cambridge: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. pp. 328–362. doi:10.13140/2.1.1828.3203.