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A new species of eel cods Muraenolepis kuderskii sp. nova (fam. Muraenolepididae) from South Georgia (the Scotia Sea)

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A new species of the eel cod Muraenolepis kuderskii sp. nova from the Scotia Sea, South Georgia, from depths of 440–605 m is described. The species belongs to the group of “few-rayed” species having less than 150 rays in the dorsal fin and less than 114 rays in the anal fin. According to general body proportions, M. kuderskii is closely related to high-latitude Antarctic species M. trunovi; however, it differs from the latter and all other species of the group of “few-rayed” eel cods in a short chin barbel, small sizes of the eye, a short antebranchial distance, a short anteanal distance, and a long postanal distance.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Balushkin, V.P. Prirodina, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 725–732.

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Balushkin, A.V., Prirodina, V.P. A new species of eel cods Muraenolepis kuderskii sp. nova (fam. Muraenolepididae) from South Georgia (the Scotia Sea). J. Ichthyol. 47, 683–690 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207090019

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