Acanthonus armatus gen. inc. Guenther , 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

Acanthonus armatus gen. inc. Guenther, 1878

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Swimming; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2093_00611.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Acanthonus armatus gen. inc.; scientificName: Acanthonus armatus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Ophidiiformes; family: Ophidiidae; genus: Acanthonus; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Günther, 1878; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2544; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 23; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-21; eventTime: 6:20:48 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-59ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 57

Figures

Figure 57. Acanthonus armatus gen. inc. in situ in the surrounding area of the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).