Culeolus spp. indet.

Gerdes, Klaas, Kihara, Terue Cristina, Martinez Arbizu, Pedro, Kuhn, Thomas, Schwarz-Schampera, Ulrich, Mah, Christopher L, Norenburg, Jon L, Linley, Thomas D, Shalaeva, Kate, Macpherson, Enrique, Gordon, Dennis, Stoehr, Sabine, Messing, Charles G, Bober, Simon, Guggolz, Theresa, Christodoulou, Magdalini, Gebruk, Andrey, Kremenetskaia, Antonina, Kroh, Andreas, Sanamyan, Karen, Bolstad, Kathrin, Hoffman, Leon, Gooday, Andrew J & Molodtsova, Tina, 2021, Megafauna of the German exploration licence area for seafloor massive sulphides along the Central and South East Indian Ridge (Indian Ocean), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 69955-69955 : 69955

Culeolus spp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2104_00106.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Culeolus spp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Ascidiacea; order: Stolidobranchia; family: Pyuridae; genus: Culeolus; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herdman, 1881; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: Vent site 4; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2508; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Karen Sanamyan; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: spp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-04; eventTime: 8:09:09 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-85ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 65

Figures

Figure 65. Culeolus sp. indet. in situ in the surrounding area of the vent site 4 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. The individual is an example for the species complex Culeolus spp. indet., with more images and entries in the supplementary imagery and data table. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).