IISN 1608-4195

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

A.V. BALUSHKIN, V.V. FEDOROV

NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FISH FAUNA OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, No 4

ST. PETERSBURG

 

Editor–in–Chief - A.F. Alimov - Director of the Zoological Institute RAS


Editorial Board:

V.V. Khlebovich, Ya.I. Starobogatov, S.D. Grebel’nyi,

T.A. Asanovich, Yu.S. Balashov, V.Ja. Berger, I.S. Darevsky,

V.R. Dolnik, S.Yu. Kuznetsov, À.V. Gorokhov

 

Editors of the volume:

V.Ja. Berger, B.A. Sheiko

 

Reviewers:

G.P. Rudenko, N.V. Maksimovich


 

New data on the Antarctic fish fauna for the last decade of the 20th century are reported. The annotated list of additions to the fish fauna including 1 order, 7 families, 13 genera, and 64 species is provided. A re-description and the first illustration of the rare deep-water Antarctic fish, Melanocetus rossi Balushkin et Fedorov, from the Ross Sea are done.

This publication is financed by the State Program “Study and Investigation of the Antarctic (project no. 16) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants no. 00-04-48838 and no. 00-15-07794).

This series is proposed to publications of separate works from the Zoological Institute in Russian and English. It is published without any periodicity and distributed according to request applications.

 


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© A.V. Balushkin, V.V. Fedorov, 2002

 

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