Lepidonotothen kempi, an Antarctic notothenioid fish, has gone on display at Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, as per the aquarium's Instagram page. This is the first time this species has been exhibited in Japan.
The given the Japanese name for the species is メガネノト (megane-noto). According to the Aquarium's newsletter, the fish was collected on the 65th expedition of the Antarctic research ship Fuji, caught by a beam trawl from Lützow-Holm Bay. The newsletter notes that L. kempi, a low-latitude species, has been synonymised with the high-latitude L. squamifrons, but the study synonymising the two did not sufficiently investigate specimens from the area where Port of Nagoya's specimen was caught, so they are provisionally retaining the name L. kempi for it.
If any Zoochatters are able to visit, I encourage them to see this rare fish to add it to the gallery! No Lepidonotothen are currently represented in the Zoochat galleries. Additionally, the newspaper says Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba are currently on display. No mention of the other Antarctic fishes I saw there in April though... I hope they are still on display.
The given the Japanese name for the species is メガネノト (megane-noto). According to the Aquarium's newsletter, the fish was collected on the 65th expedition of the Antarctic research ship Fuji, caught by a beam trawl from Lützow-Holm Bay. The newsletter notes that L. kempi, a low-latitude species, has been synonymised with the high-latitude L. squamifrons, but the study synonymising the two did not sufficiently investigate specimens from the area where Port of Nagoya's specimen was caught, so they are provisionally retaining the name L. kempi for it.
If any Zoochatters are able to visit, I encourage them to see this rare fish to add it to the gallery! No Lepidonotothen are currently represented in the Zoochat galleries. Additionally, the newspaper says Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba are currently on display. No mention of the other Antarctic fishes I saw there in April though... I hope they are still on display.
