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Young specimens of cf. Pagothenia borchgrevinki were observed for the first time to cling to the subsurface of the marginal ice shelf in Drescher Inlet, southeastern Weddell Sea. Along an approximately 40-m-long videotransect at 80 m water depth, the abundance was roughly estimated to be 7 individuals per 10 m2. This behaviour is interpreted to represent the most advanced adaptation to ice as a microhabitat for Antarctic fish.
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Gutt, J. The Antarctic ice shelf: an extreme habitat for notothenioid fish. Polar Biol 25, 320–322 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-001-0352-9
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