A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Purser, Autun, Hehemann, Laura, Boehringer, Lilian, Tippenhauer, Sandra, Wege, Mia, Bornemann, Horst, Pineda-Metz, Santiago EA, Flintrop, Clara M., Koch, Florian, Hellmer, Hartmut H., Burkhardt-Holm, Patricia, Janout, Markus, Werner, Ellen, Glemser, Barbara, Balaguer, Jenna, Rogge, Andreas, Holtappels, Moritz, Wenzhoefer, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Filchner Trough; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Icefish; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55754/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55754/1/PIIS0960982221016985.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.72d15b13-848f-4896-b0e2-073be283a1b7

A breeding colony of notothenioid icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947) of globally unprecedented extent has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The colony was estimated to cover at least �240 km2 of the eastern flank of the Filchner Trough, comprised of fish nests at a de...