Caudotestis Issaitschikow, 1928

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Genus Caudotestis Issaitschikow, 1928

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The status of the genus Caudotestis was discussed by Cribb (2005), who restricted it to four species from cold and deep waters. A further species has been described since. These species are:

The type-species Caudotestis nicolli Issaitschikow, 1928 , is known from Cottidae and Anarhichadidae, Kara Sea and off the eastern coast of Canada ( Issaitschikow 1928; Bray 1979).

Caudotestis opisthorchis ( Polyanski, 1955) is known from Agonidae , Cottidae , Gadidae , Hemitripteridae , Hexagrammidae , Liparidae , Psychrolutidae and Sebastidae, Barents Sea , East Kamchatka, Chukotsk, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, off British Columbia, off West Greenland and off the eastern coast of Canada ( Shulman & Shulman-Albova 1953; Polyanski 1955; Strelkov 1960; Zhukov 1963; Mamaev 1965; Arai 1967, 1969; Brinkmann 1975; Bray 1979; Machida & Araki 1992; Shvetsova 1992, 1994).

Caudotestis kerguelensis ( Prudhoe & Bray, 1973) is known from Channichthyidae , Congiopodidae and Nototheniidae , off Heard Island, Kerguelen, and the Macquarie Islands ( Prudhoe & Bray 1973; Zdzitowiecki & Pisano 1996).

Caudotestis glacialis ( Zdzitowiecki, 1989) (syn. Stenakron sp. of Prudhoe & Bray 1973) is known from Artedidraconidae , Bathydraconidae and Liparidae, Davis Sea, Bransfield Strait and the Weddell Sea ( Prudhoe & Bray 1973; Zdzitowiecki 1989, 1993, 1997a, 1997b, 2002a, 2000b).

Caudotestis patagonensis Cantatore, Lancia, Lanfranchi & Timi, 2012 is known from Congiopodidae, Patagonian Shelf , Argentina ( Cantatore et al. 2012).