Antarctic silverfish

Pleuragramma antarcticum

Nototheniid Fish from Seven Hundred Twenty Eight Meters

Antarctic silverfish is a marine fish of Southern Ocean. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 26.6 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Nototheniidae
Genus: Pleuragramma
Maximum length: 26.6 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Southern Ocean: Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland, Elephant, South Orkney islands, Weddell, Bellingshausen, Ross and Davis seas, Oates, Adélie, Wilhelm and other coasts of East Antarctica to Prydz Bay.

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