Species details
Adaptations within Antarctic Ecosystems: 3rd SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology. Washington.
provided by British Antarctic Survey
Barrukia cristata has a scale-covered, flattened body, up to 6.5cm long.
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Adaptations within Antarctic Ecosystems: 3rd SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology. Washington.
5 to 1,120m, found commonly in mud from Sub-Antarctica to the Antarctic Peninsula and Continent.
Barrukia cristata is an ambush predator whose diet is reported to include crustaceans. It is known to be eaten by Trematomus fish. Individuals probably live for not much longer than a year and a half, and population studies indicate that three generations are produced per year.
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