Freyastera benthophila (Sladen, 1889)

Glover, Adrian G, Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Amon, Diva J, Smith, Craig R, O'Hara, Tim, Mah, Christopher L & Dahlgren, Thomas G, 2016, Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7251-7251 : 7251

Freyastera benthophila (Sladen, 1889)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: b7ffe7a2-7be1-4d4f-b784-7aaecf0ee743 ; recordNumber: NHM_413; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 1; preparations: tissue and DNA voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution; otherCatalogNumbers: 5023520; associatedSequences: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KU519550 | KU519518 | KU519535; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Freyasteracf.benthophila; scientificName: Freyasterabenthophila; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Brisingida; family: Freyellidae; genus: Freyastera; scientificNameAuthorship: (Sladen, 1889); Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4011; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.862225; decimalLongitude: -116.546215; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Diva Amon, Chris Mah, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren; dateIdentified: 2015-06-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; identificationQualifier: cf; Event: samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicle; eventDate: 2013-10-21; eventTime: 00:39; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: RV06; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 16599946-2aba-4710-98e6-43c522061878 ; recordNumber: NHM_421; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 3; preparations: tissue and DNA voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution; otherCatalogNumbers: 5023523; associatedSequences: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KU519551; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Freyasteracf.benthophila; scientificName: Freyasterabenthophila; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Brisingida; family: Freyellidae; genus: Freyastera; scientificNameAuthorship: (Sladen, 1889); Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4011; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.862225; decimalLongitude: -116.546215; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Diva Amon, Chris Mah, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren; dateIdentified: 2015-06-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; identificationQualifier: cf; Event: samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicle; eventDate: 2013-10-21; eventTime: 00:39; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: RV06; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

15cm long arm fragments of a Freyellidae recovered from ROV biobox. Identified by DNA and morphological examination (Fig. 10). Morphological identification suggests Freyastera benthophila detailed in Sladen 1889).

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

Diagnosis

Forms a unique monophyletic clade distinct from other AB01 specimens (Fig. 5). The speciemens differs significantly in sequence identity to the published 16S sequence of Freyastera benthophila on GenBank accession EU722993 (K2P = 0,064). The type locality of Freyastera benthophila is in South Pacific (39°41'S; 131°23'W, 4663m depth).