Photographic survey of benthos provides insights into the Antarctic fish fauna from the Marguerite Bay slope and the Amundsen Sea

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Eastman, Joseph T., Amsler, Margaret O., Aronson, Richard B., Thatje, Sven, McClintock, James B., Vos, Stephanie C., Kaeli, Jeffrey W., Singh, Hanumant, Mesa, Mario La
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Copepods
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11141/243; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102012000697

We reviewed photographic images of fishes from depths of 381–2282 m in Marguerite Bay and 405–2007 m in the Amundsen Sea. Marguerite Bay fishes were 33% notothenioids and 67% non-notothenioids. Channichthyids (47%) and nototheniids (44%) were the most abundant notothenioids. The deep-living channich...