Pogonophryne is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
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Pogonophryne was first described as a genus in 1914 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan when he described a new species of fish, Pogonophryne scotti, which had been collected on the Terra Nova Expedition in the Ross Sea. P. scotti is, therefore, the type species of Pogonophryne by monotypy.[1][2] The genus name is a compound of pogonos meaning "beard", a reference to the barbel on the chin of P. scotti, and "phryne" which means "toad", possibly an allusion to the bumps and knobs on the head, like the skin of a toad.[3]
There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Pogonophryne albipinna Eakin, 1981 (White-fin plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne barsukovi Andriashev, 1967 (Stub-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne bellingshausenensis Eakin, Eastman & Matallanas, 2008 (Spot-less nape plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne brevibarbata Balushkin, Petrov & Prut'ko, 2011 (Short-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne cerebropogon Eakin & Eastman, 1998 (Brain-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne dewitti Eakin, 1988 (Dewitt's plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne eakini Balushkin, 1999 (Eakin's plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne favosa Balushkin & Korolkova, 2013 [5]
- Pogonophryne fusca Balushkin & Eakin, 1998 (Dusky plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne immaculata Eakin, 1981 (Spot-less plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne lanceobarbata Eakin, 1987 (Lance-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne macropogon Eakin, 1981 (Great-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne maculiventrata Spodareva & Balushkin, 2014 (Spot-belly plunderfish) [6]
- Pogonophryne marmorata Norman, 1938 (Marbled plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne mentella Andriashev, 1967 (Long-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne neyelovi Shandikov & Eakin, 2013 (Hop-beard plunderfish) [7]
- Pogonophryne orangiensis Eakin & Balushkin, 1998 (Orange-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne pallida Balushkin & Spodareva, 2015 (Pale plunderfish) [8]
- Pogonophryne pavlovi Balushkin, 2013 (Pavlov's plunderfish) [9]
- Pogonophryne permitini Andriashev, 1967 (Fine-spotted plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne platypogon Eakin, 1988 (Flat-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne sarmentifera Balushkin & Spodareva, 2013 [10]
- Pogonophryne scotti Regan, 1914 (Saddle-back plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne skorai Balushkin & Spodareva, 2013 [11]
- Pogonophryne squamibarbata Eakin & Balushkin, 2000 (Scale-beard plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne stewarti Eakin, Eastman & Near, 2009 (Stewart's plunderfish)
- Pogonophryne tronio Shandikov, Eakin & Usachev, 2013 (Turquoise plunderfish) [12]
- Pogonophryne ventrimaculata Eakin, 1987 (Spot-belly plunderfish)
Pogonophryne plunderfishes have a broad head which is flattened with post-temporal ridges which vary from weakly to well developed. They have a snout which is longer than the diameter of the eye and a broad space between the eyes. The mental barbel, the barbel on the chin which characterises the barbeled plunderfishes, is tapered to a point or expanded at its tip to a varying extent and frequently has branched or simple processes. The pper lateral line has tubular scales at the front and disc-shaped scales towards the back. The middle lateral line normally has disc¬shaped scales to the front and tubular scales to the rear, frequently these are interspersed with disc-shaped scales.[13] The maximum length of these fishes varies from a standard length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) in P. albipinna to a total length of 35.5 cm (14.0 in) in P. neyelovi.[4]
Pogonophryne plunderfishes are found in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica reaching as far north as the South Shetland Islands.[13] They are bathydemersal or bathypelagic[4] in deeper water typically at depths greater than 100 m (330 ft). Their biology is little known but they are known to feed on polychaetes and crustaceans such as mysids, isopods and copepods.[13]
Scharpf, Christopher & Lazara, Kenneth J., eds. (12 April 2021). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 October 2021. Balushkin, A.V. & Korolkova, E.D. (2013): New Species of Plunderfish Pogonophryne favosa sp. n. (Artedidraconidae, Notothenioidei, Perciformes) from the Cosmonauts Sea (Antarctica) with Description in Artedidraconids of Unusual Anatomical Structures–Convexitas Superaxillaris. Journal of Ichthyology, 53 (8): 562-574.
Spodareva, V.V. & Balushkin, A.V. (2014): Description of a new species of plunderfish of genus Pogonophryne (Perciformes: Artedidraconidae) from the Bransfield Strait (Antarctica) with a key for the identification of species of the group "marmorata". Journal of Ichthyology, 54 (1): 1-6.
Balushkin, A.V. & Spodareva, V.V. (2015): New species of the toad plunderfish of the "albipinna" group, genus Pogonophryne (Artedidraconidae) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (6): 757-764.
Balushkin, A.V. & Spodareva, V.V. (2013): Pogonophryne sarmentifera sp. nov. (Artedidraconidae; Notothenioidei; Perciformes) – the deep-water species of Antarctic plunderfishes from the Ross Sea (Southern Ocean). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 317 (3): 275-281.
Balushkin, A.V. & Spodareva, V.V. (2013): Pogonophryne skorai sp. n. (Perciformes: Artedidraconidae), a new species of toadlike plunderfish from the Bransfield Strait and coastal waters of the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica). Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 39 (3): 196–201.
