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Artedidraconidae (Barbled plunderfishes)
Etymology: Pogonophryne: Greek, pogon = beard + Greek, phrynos = toad (Ref. 45335); sarmentifera: Name derived from Latin 'sarmentifer' for lorate or whiplike.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 1157 - 1036 m (Ref. 95071). Polar
Southern Ocean: Ross Sea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 27.6 cm SL (female)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 31; Anal soft rays: 17; Vertebrae: 39. This species is distinguished from its congeners in the long-barbeled plunderfish in the mentella group by the following set of characters: long mental barbel (68.0-70.0% of HL), sarment-shaped with a thin terminal expansion (esca width 5.9-8.1% of barbel length) composed of rows of short and flattened incubous processes; large number of anterior teeth in the lower jaw near symphysis (19-30 left, 21-31 right) arranged in two or more rows; seismosensory system canals on the top of the head have very small pores; weakly developed internasal organ. Colour of peritoneum light, almost white, with rare pigmental macules (Ref. 95071).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Balushkin, A.V. and Spodareva. V.V., 2013. Pogonophryne sarmentifera sp. nov. (Artedidraconidae; Notothenioidei; Perciformes) - the deep-water species of Antarctic plunderfishes from the Ross Sea (Southern Ocean). Proc. Zool. Inst. Rus. Acad. Sci. 317(3):275-281. (Ref. 95071)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00513 (0.00247 - 0.01065), b=3.13 (2.95 - 3.31), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.4 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (24 of 100).