Lepidisis 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

Lepidisis 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: R2102_00153.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Lepidisis spp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Isididae; genus: Lepidisis; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Verrill, 1883; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 5 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 11; maximumDepthInMeters: 2969; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 30; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: spp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-01; eventTime: 8:27:44 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-80ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 114

Figures

Figure 114. Lepidisis sp. indet. in situ at the South East Indian Ridge within Vent site 5 in Cluster 11 of the INDEX area. The individual is an example for the species complex Lepidisis spp. indet., with more images and entries in the supplementary imagery and data table. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).