Classification / Names
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Teleostei (teleosts) >
Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) >
Psychrolutidae (Fatheads)
Etymology: taranetzi: Named in honor of A.Ya. Taranets (1910-1941), outstanding Soviet ichthyologist.
Eponymy: Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910–1941) was a Russian marine biologist and ichthyologist who was an eminent expert on Far Eastern fishes. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range ? - 1650 m (Ref. 41738). Deep-water
Southern Ocean: South Georgia Island.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35725)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 28; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 36; Vertebrae: 49. Two barbels on lower jaw at corner of mouth; body flaccid, naked; all fin rays unbranched; 7 branchiostegal rays.; 2 pairs of nostrils; no teeth on vomer and palatines; slit absent to rear of last gill; gill membranes fused with interbranchial space, not forming a free fold at the rear; scapula and coracoid separated; scapular foramen narrow, open to cleithrum; 2 radials in the skeleton of the pectoral fin, interradial foramina absent; postcleithrum absent; pelvic fins without spiny ray; first proximal pterygiophore of dorsal fin lacking ray; no pleural ribs, epipleurals present only on first 6 vertebrae; pleurostylar vertebra with haemal arch fused with the center and elongated neural process; urostylar vertebra fused with hypurals to form a single bony complex; 1 epural; pores absent from lateral line of trunk; postorbitals absent (Ref. 41738).
Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Balushkin, A.V. and O.S. Voskoboynikova, 1990. A new family, Bathylutichthyidae (Cottoidei, Scorpaeniformes), for the deepwater fish Bathylutichthys taranetzi gen. et sp. nov. from South Georgia Island (Antarctica). J. Ichthyol. 30(2):67-75. (Ref. 41738)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 1.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.3 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
