title: In situ observations of a possible skate nursery off the western Antarctic Peninsula.
abstract: A dense aggregation of skate egg cases was imaged during a photographic survey of the sea floor along the western Antarctic Peninsula in November 2013. Egg cases were noted in a narrow band between 394 and 443 m depth. Although some skate species in other oceans are known to utilize restricted areas to deposit eggs in great numbers, such nurseries have not been described in the Southern Ocean.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Amsler
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901, U.S.A.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: McClintock
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U.S.A.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, U.K.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thatje
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901, U.S.A.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Vos
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Brothers
authors.affiliation: Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, U.K.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901, U.S.A.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.affiliation: Nature Imagery, under contract to Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U.S.A.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901, U.S.A.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000864:Antarctic Regions; D017753:Ecosystem; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D010058:Oviposition; D010063:Ovum; D012860:Skates, Fish
keywords: Antarctica; Elasmobranchii; Rajidae; oviparity; skate egg case