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Lucernaria australis? photographed in situ about 37 m deep by Bill Baker, Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula, February 2008.

Lucernaria australis? is found occasionally subtidally between about 30 and 45 m deep in the vicinity of Palmer Station, Palmer Archipelago, on the Antarctic Peninsula (64° 46' S, 64° 03' W). This asymmetric specimen with only three complete arms with terminal tentacle clusters may be regenerating following predation. Photograph by Bill Baker, February 2008, used with permission.

. Photographer: Baker, Bill. Publisher: Mills, Claudia.