Chaunacops gen. inc.

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

Chaunacops gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Swimming; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2101_00051.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Chaunacops gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Lophiiformes; family: Chaunacidae; genus: Chaunacops; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Garman, 1899; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 5 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 11; maximumDepthInMeters: 2922; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 29; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-29; eventTime: 6:55:14 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-75ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.7°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 50

Figures

Figure 50. Chaunacops gen. inc. in situ 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).