Iridogorgia magnispiralis sp. inc. Watling, 2007

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Iridogorgia magnispiralis sp. inc. Watling, 2007

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2092_00358.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Iridogorgia magnispiralis sp. inc.; scientificName: Iridogorgia magnispiralis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Chrysogorgiidae; genus: Iridogorgia; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Watling, 2007; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2461; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-20; eventTime: 6:33:26 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-57ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 97

Figures

Figure 97. Iridogorgia magnispiralis sp. inc. in situ at the South East Indian Ridge within Vent site 6 in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).