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Striped rockcod

Trematomus hansoni

Classification

The emerald rockcod (Trematomus bernacchii), also known as the emerald notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean Taxonomy The Emerald rockcod was first formally described in 1902 by the Belgian-born British ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger with the type localities given as Cape Adare in Antarctica at a depth of 5–8 fathoms and Duke of York Island at a depth of 3–4 fathoms. In 1982 the Russian ichthyologist Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin placed this species, and all the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
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