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Vomeridens infuscipinnis (Antarctic dragonfish)

Synonyms: Racovitzia infuscipinnis
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Vomeridens infuscipinnis is a species of Antarctic dragonfish found in the Ross Sea, the Weddell Sea and around the South Orkney Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. It is a deep-water fish, found at depths of from 500 to 813 metres (1,640 to 2,667 ft). This species grows to a length of 22 centimetres (8.7 in) SL. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Prey / Diet

Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill)[1]
Ningaui yvonnae (Southern Ningaui)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biology of the Antarctic dragonfish Vomeridens infuscipinnis (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae), KRISTEN L. KUHN, THOMAS J. NEAR, H. WILLIAM DETRICH III and JOSEPH T. EASTMAN, Antarctic Science 23(1), 18–26 (2011)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0