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Artedidraconidae (Barbled plunderfishes)
Etymology: Dolloidraco: After Louis Dollo, professor of Paleontology in Lille, France; 1857 + Greek, drako = dragon.
Environment / Climate / Range
Ecology
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 203 - 1145 m. Deep-water, preferred ?; 64°S - 78°S
Southern Ocean: Weddell Sea, Graham Land, Queen Mary Land, South Victoria Land.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 13.7 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5181)
Found on the sublittoral and continental shelf. Adults feed mainly on errant polychaetes; also in the gut content were gammarid amphipods, isopods, sedentary polychaetes and unidentified polychaetes (Ref. 5181).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Eakin, R.R., 1990. Artedidraconidae. p. 332-356. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. (Ref. 5181)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)
CITES (Ref. 94142)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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