Ophiophyllum petilum sp. inc. Lyman, 1878

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

Ophiophyllum petilum sp. inc. Lyman, 1878

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: DNA voucher and animal stored in 96% ethanol; associatedMedia: R2102_00129.jpg; associatedOccurrences: none; associatedSequences: COI; Taxon: taxonID: I18_1297; scientificNameID: -; taxonConceptID: Ophiophyllum petilum sp. inc.; scientificName: Ophiophyllum petilum; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Ophiuroidea; order: Ophiurida; genus: Ophiophyllum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Lyman, 1878; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 5 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 11; maximumDepthInMeters: 2943; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 30; Identification: identifiedBy: Sabine Stöhr; identificationRemarks: Identified by morphology and DNA of collected specimen; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-01; eventTime: 9:41:50 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-80ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.7°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; collectionCode: I18_080RO_A_004; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 189

Figures

Figure 189. Ophiophyllum petilum sp. inc. in situ (a) and sampled specimen (b) in the surrounding area of the vent site 5 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 11 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).