The Fishes 
of the 
Swedish South Polar Expedition. 
By 
EINAR LÖNNBERG. 
With 5 plates. 
The Ichthyological collections of this Expedition are very rich and very valuable 
in spite of the fact that a considerable part of the same was lost when the ship 
“Antarctic” foundered the 12th of Febr. 1903 after it had been crushed by the ice. 
This must be the more deplored as the lost material was collected in several locali- 
ties of great interest, among which may be mentioned the cold basin of Bransfield 
Strait, where the bottom temperature was found to be — 1,65° C., the Gerlache Canal 
etc. Nevertheless, although the result with regard to the widening of the knowledge 
about the Antarctic Ichthys is not so great as it, with a little better luck, could have 
been, very important facts have been gathered concerning the geographical distribu- 
tion of different species of fish, and quite a number of species and subspecies are 
in the following pages described as new to science. This, on the whole and under 
the prevailing circumstances gratifying, result is chiefly due to the assiduous efforts 
and energy of the Zoologist of the Expedition, Mr. K. A. ANDERSSON, who has 
caught nearly all of the fishes himself. It is a great pleasure to me to publicly 
acknowledge this here and tender him my best thanks for his valuable work and 
for the information concerning the capture of the different specimens etc. which he 
has given me. I wish also to give my compliments to Mr. C. SKOTTSBERG, the 
Botanist of the Expedition, who from living specimens has skilfully prepared the 
coloured figures which accompany this paper. Thanks to this, the reader has the 
pleasure of getting a-Tair idea of the beautiful colours of some of the antarctic 
fishes. The figures on thé. second plate are oAspecfaT mferest, Because" *th*e original 
specimens to them belonged to the material which was lost in the shipwreck. 
Schwedische Siidpolar-Exf edition igoi — igoj. I 
MAY 29 1933 
