Sipuncula Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_1003)

Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Glover, Adrian G, Bribiesca-Contreras, Guadalupe, Drennan, Regan, Stewart, Eva C D, Boolukos, Corie M, King, Lucas D, Sherlock, Emma, Smith, Craig R, Dahlgren, Thomas G & Neal, Lenka, 2023, Checklist of newly-vouchered annelid taxa from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean, based on morphology and genetic delimitation, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 86921-86921 : 86921

Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_1003)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: NHMUK ANEA 2023.581 ; recordNumber: NHM_1003; recordedBy: Adrian Glover | Helena Wiklund | Thomas Dahlgren | Madeleine Brasier; individualCount: 1; preparations: specimen stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution | DNA voucher stored in buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 0174126751; associatedSequences: OQ746870 (18S); occurrenceID: EF 51AD 2B-AD14-5733-BD71-4BC011307B01; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_1003); scientificName: Sphaerodoridae; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Annelida; class: Polychaeta; order: Phyllodocida; family: Sphaerodoridae; taxonRank: family; scientificNameAuthorship: Malmgren, 1867; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: Ocean Mineral Singapore exploration claim Stratum A ; verbatimLocality: OMS Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4122; locationRemarks: Deployment EB 04; at Station S 1; from R/ V Thomas G. Thompson Cruise no. TN319; verbatimLatitude: 12'08.02; verbatimLongitude: 117'17.52; decimalLatitude: 12.13367; decimalLongitude: -117.292; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Helena Wiklund | Lenka Neal | Thomas Dahlgren | Adrian Glover | Madeleine Brasier | Regan Drennan | Eva Stewart; dateIdentified: 2021-04-20; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: eventID: OMS1_AB02_EB04; samplingProtocol: Brenke Epibenthic Sledge; eventDate: 2015-02-24; eventTime: 19:10; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNotes: Collected from epi net (on the epibenthic sledge); Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean.

Diagnosis

Damaged specimen (Fig. 121 ) consistent with placement within family Sphaerodoridae , based on morphology and DNA.

Figures

Figure 121. Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM _ 1003), complete preserved specimen NHM _ 1003. Scale bar 1 mm.