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Morphological Characteristics of Sailfish Pike Channichthys velifer (Channichthyidae) from the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean)

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Based on a representative sample set (41 specimens), features of external morphology, seismosensory system, and axial skeleton of the sailfish pike Channichthys velifer (Channichthyidae) are described and compared to the corresponding features in a closely related species, ginger (rugose) pike Ch. rugosus.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to collectors N.V. Kononov, A.F. Pushkin, V.S. Tot, and Yu.N. Shcherbachev for the collected material. We are grateful to K.E. Nikolaev (White Sea Biological Station of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for his help in the mathematical processing of data and discussion of the results.

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This study was performed within the State Program “The Structure, Classification, and biogeography of Fishes of Russia and Antarctic,” project no. AAAA-A17-117030310197-7.

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Nikolaeva, E.A., Balushkin, A.V. Morphological Characteristics of Sailfish Pike Channichthys velifer (Channichthyidae) from the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean). J. Ichthyol. 59, 834–842 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945219060079

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