A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Purser, A., Hehemann, L., Boehringer, L., Tippenhauer, S., Wege, M., Bornemann, H., Pineda-Metz, S., Flintrop, C., Koch, F., Hellmer, H., Burkhardt-Holm, P., Janout, M., Werner, E., Glemser, B., Balaguer, J., Rogge, A., Holtappels, M., Wenzhoefer, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Filchner Trough; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Icefish; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-7135-B; http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-7137-9

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 similar to 240 km(2) of the eastern flank of the Filchner Trough, comprised of fish n...