Paranotothenia dewitti
| Paranotothenia dewitti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Nototheniidae |
| Genus: | Paranotothenia |
| Species: | P. dewitti
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| Binomial name | |
| Paranotothenia dewitti Balushkin, 1990
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Paranotothenia dewitti is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean where it is found in the area of sea which the Russians refer to as the Somov Sea.[1] This species was first formally described in 1990 by the Russian ichthyologist Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin with the type locality given as the Somov Sea at 64°04'S, 165°39'E.[2] Balushkin did not identify who he honoured in the specific name but it is almost certainly the American ichthyologist Hugh Hamilton DeWitt.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Paranotothenia dewitti" in FishBase. June 2021 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Paranotothenia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (12 April 2021). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 28 September 2021.