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A new genus of eel cods Notomuraenobathys gen. nov. with a single species Notomuraenobathys microcephalus (Norman, 1937) is described. The new genus differs from Muraenolepis in greater number of vertebrae, body proportions, and newly found structural traits of the seismosensory system. The species description is supplemented with the results of X-ray investigation, including the data on the holotype (BMNH 1937.9.21.96)
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Balushkin, V.P. Prirodina, 2010, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2010, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 154–158.
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Balushkin, A.V., Prirodina, V.P. Notomuraenobathys gen. nov.—a New genus of eel cods (Muraenolepididae: Gadiformes) from the Southern ocean. J. Ichthyol. 50, 226–230 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945210030021
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