10 from Argentina (112.7-153.6 mm SL), FAKU 43128, 43129, AP 624, 626, 628-633; 10 from Chile (127.5-153.0 mm SL), FAKU CP 333-341, 545.
Description:
D 17-19; A 16-21; P1 16-18; P2 7-8; GR 16-20+33-41=52-62; Scutes 19-24+9-11=29-35; V 15-18+35-38=52-58.
HL 23.3-27.0% of SL; ED 5.5-6.4; BD 19.8-23.5; SN 6.6-7.6; IO 5.7-7.1; UJ 11.1-12.4; CP 7.1-9.3; P1L 14.0-16.5; P2L 7.8-9.3; DH 9.8-12.2; AH 4.7-6.3.
Body elongate and strongly compressed, its depth 4.3-5.0 in SL. Head rather small, 3.7-4.3 in SL. Snout about equal or slightly longer than eye. Eye moderate in size nearly 4 in HL. Nostrils situated very close each other and about middle between tip of snout and anterior margin of eye, anterior one round and posterior one slit-like. Mouth oblique; maxilla extending to below middle of eye. Villiform tooth patch on lower jaw and tongue; single series of fine teeth on palatine. Upper jaw and vomer toothless. Pseudobranchiae present. Gill-rakers long with fine serrations. Underneath of free edge of gill-cover with small dermal lobe. Pectoral fin situated ventrally, its origin just behind of opercle. Pelvic fin with 8 rays situated below drosal fin origin. Anal fin origin situated below behind posterior insertion of dorsal fin by one-fourth of distance between end of dorsal fin base and caudal fin base. Caudal fin weakly forked. Anus situated just in front of anal fin. Scales cycloid and deciduous. about 30 feebly keeled and not sharply pointed scutes on ventral margin. Body dark blue dorsally and silvery white laterally and ventrally. All fins translucent.
Distribution:
Argentine Patagonian Falkland Region, Straits of Magellan and Burdwood Bank.
Remarks:
Important food fish for human consumption in Falkland Islands, and also for hakes, sea birds and seals in Patagonian Falkland waters (Hart, 1946).