High abundance of the epibenthic trachymedusa Ptychogastria polaris Allman, 1878 (Hydrozoa, Trachylina) in subpolar fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Grange, Laura L., Smith, Craig R., Lindsay, Dhugal J., Bentlage, Bastian, Youngbluth, Marsh J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Andvord; Andvord Bay; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arctic; Barilari; Flandres; Flandres Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/404553/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/404553/1/journal.pone.0168648.pdf

Medusae can be conspicuous and abundant members of seafloor communities in deep-sea benthic boundary layers. The epibenthic trachymedusa, Ptychogastria polaris Allman, 1878 (Hydrozoa: Trachylina: Ptychogastriidae) occurs in the cold, high latitude systems of both the northern and southern hemisphere...