Isididae Acanella 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

Isididae Acanella gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2095_00087.jpg; associatedOccurrences: Goniasteridae gen. indet.; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Isididae Acanella gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Isididae; genus: Acanella; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Gray, 1870; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2370; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 24; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-23; eventTime: 6:50:03 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-63ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 108

Figures

Figure 108. Isididae Acanella gen. 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).