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Bathylagus niger sp. nova from subantarctic waters of the Southern Ocean is described. This species differs from other representatives of the genus in its combination of the following characters: 23–30 (usually 26–27) rakers on the first gill arch, 20–23 rays in the anal fin, 10–12 rays in the dorsal fin, 40–42 scale pockets in the lateral line, 45–48 (usually 46–47) vertebrae, 4–7 (usually 5–6) pyloric caeca, the greatest body depth is in adults 19–22% SL, and the average head is 21–23% SL.
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Original Russian Text © S.G. Kobylianskii, 2006, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 437–441.
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Kobylianskii, S.G. Bathylagus niger sp. nova (Bathylagidae, Salmoniformes) a new species of Bathylagus from the subpolar waters of the Southern Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 46, 413–417 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945206060014
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