Notothenia trigramma
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| Notothenia trigramma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Nototheniidae |
| Genus: | Notothenia |
| Species: | N. trigramma |
| Binomial name | |
| Notothenia trigramma Regan, 1913 | |
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Notothenia trigramma is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It occurs in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Notothenia trigramma was first formally described in 1913 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan with the type locality given as the harbour at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, the type specimen being collected on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.[2] Some authorities classify this species in the genus Paranotothenia,[3] although FishBase has retained it in the genus Notothenia pending further studies.[1] Other authorities have placed this species in the genus Patagonotothen and some have regarded it as a synonym of Patagonotothen canina.[4] The specific name trigramma means "three lined", a reference to the three lateral lines possessed by this species.[5]