Dissostichus mawsoni
Translingual
Etymology
Dissostichus + mawsoni, from Ancient Greek δισσός (dissós, “double; twice”) + στίχος (stíkhos, “line”), and (Sir Douglas) Mawson, the leader of an Antarctic expedition during which specimens were collected.[1]
Proper noun
Dissostichus mawsoni m
- A taxonomic species within the family Nototheniidae – Antarctic toothfish.
Hypernyms
- (species): Perciformes - order; Notothenioidei - suborder; Nototheniidae - family; Pleuragrammatinae - subfamily; Dissostichus - genus
References
- Dissostichus mawsoni on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dissostichus mawsoni on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth Lazara, editors (April 12, 2021), “Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenioidei”, in The ETYfish Project