Field Guide     CHORDATA  

Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

CHORDATA
fish, penguins, marine mammals, ascidians

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naked dragonfish
Gymnodraco acuticeps

eelpout
Lycodichthys dearborni

Pagetopsis macropterus

bald notothen or rockcod
Pagothenia borchgrevinki

emerald notothen or rockcod
Trematomus bernacchii

striped notothen or rockcod / green rockcod
Trematomus hansoni

deepwater notothen or scaly rockcod
Trematomus loennbergii

sharp-spined notothen
Trematomus pennellii

DeVries's Paraliparis
Paraliparis devriesi

Antarctic toothfish
Dissostichus mawsoni

Eaton's skate
Bathyraja eatonii

Pleuragramma antarcticum

Antarctic sharks ?
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Adelie Penguin
Pygoscelis adeliae

Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri

Weddell seal
Leptonychotes weddellii

leopard seal
Hydrurga leptonyx

crabeater seal
Lobodon carcinophaga

killer whale
Orcinus orca

Antarctic minke whale
Balaenoptera bonaerensis



ascidian Aplidium sp.,
possibly A. vastum

ascidian Cnemidocarpa verrucosa

ascidian
probably Synoicum adareanum

ascidian


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