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 E.A., 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: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Breeding; Icefish; Southern Weddell Sea; Antarctica; Colony; Jonah's icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah); Antarctic; Arctic; Filchner Trough; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90796; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022

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 den...