Stephanomia amphytridis Lesueur & Petit, 1807

Dahlgren, Thomas G, Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Amon, Diva J, Ikebe, Chiho, Watling, Les, Smith, Craig R & Glover, Adrian G, 2016, Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 9277-9277 : 9277

Stephanomia amphytridis Lesueur & Petit, 1807

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: a1573f3a-6acf-46b9-b43e-db3a9ac90d2b ; recordNumber: NHM_249; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 1; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5594546; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384616; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Stephanomiaamphytridis; scientificName: Stephanomiaamphytridis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Hydrozoa; order: Siphonophorae; family: Stephanomiidae; genus: Stephanomia; specificEpithet: amphytridis; scientificNameAuthorship: Lesueur & Petit, 1807; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4076; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.811683333333; decimalLongitude: -116.71001666667; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol: Bowers & Connelly Megacore; eventDate: 2013-10-16; eventTime: 19:50; habitat: pelagic; fieldNumber: MC06; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Fragment of specimen stuck on megacore at retrieval. No image.

Genetic data for this taxon with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2.

Diagnosis

The CO1 data suggest that the specimen is identical to Stephanomia amphytridis Lesueur and Petit (1807) (Genbank Accession # GQ120047).