''Lindbergichthys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Lindbergichthys Balushkin, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=296994 on 2021-09-24 They are native to the Southern Ocean.

Taxonomy

''Lindbergichthys'' was first formally described in 1976 as ''Lindbergia'', a

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Lepidonotothen The grey rockcod (''Lepidonotothen squamifrons''), also known as the grey notothen, stripe-eyes notothen or stripe-eyed rockcod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is n ...

'', by the Soviet

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin Arkady (russian: Арка́дий, Arkadiy) is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the Greek name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. The Latin equivalent is Arcadius. Notable people with the name include: People: * ...

with ''Notothenia mizops'' as the type species. However, Lindbergia was preoccupied by a

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genus described by

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in 1959 and in 1979 Balushkin replaced the name with ''Lindbergichthys''. The name of honours the Soviet ichthyologist Georgiĭ Ustinovich Lindberg who died in 1976. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 19 (no. 5):144-145 The genus is not recognised by all authorities and, for example, is treated as a

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Nototheniops ''Nototheniops'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. The species in this genus are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Nototheniops'' Was first formally described as ...

'' by the '' Catalog of Fishes'' but is treated as a valid genus by

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. Some authorities place this taxon in the

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Nototheniinae, but the 5th edition of ''

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'' does not include subfamilies in the Nototheniidae.

Species

Two recognized species are in this genus: * ''

Lindbergichthys mizops The toad notie (''Lindbergichthys mizops''), or toad notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy The ...

'' ( Günther, 1880) (Toad notie) * ''

Lindbergichthys nudifrons ''Lindbergichthys nudifrons'', the yellowfin rockcod, also known as the yellow notie or the gaudy notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Atlantic ...

'' ( Lönnberg, 1905) (Yellowfin notie)

Characteristics

''Lindbergichthys notothens '' have a variable amount of scales on the head but the snout. lower jaw, nasal area, the area to the front of the eyes and the orbit are always unscaled. The rear part of the head may be scaled or unscaled. The upper lateral line has tubed scales while the middle

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has no tubed scales. In smaller fishes the pelvic fins are longer than the pectoral fins but they are equal in size in larger fishes. The caudal fins have 12-14 branched fin rays. The maximum total length is between .

Distribution and habitat

''Lindbergichthys'' notothens are found in the Scotia Arc from the

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in the Atlantic section of the Southern Ocean and from the

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and Prince Edward Islands.

Biology

''Lindbergichthys'' notothens are benthic fishes which feed on small benthic invertebrates moving on to fish eggs and small crustaceans when they are larger.

References

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