Xyelacyba myersi gen. inc. Cohen, 1961

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

Xyelacyba myersi gen. inc. Cohen, 1961

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Swimming; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2103_00024.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Xyelacyba myersi gen. inc.; scientificName: Xyelacyba myersi; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Ophidiiformes; family: Ophidiidae; genus: Xyelacyba; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Cohen, 1961; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: RTJ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2304; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-03; eventTime: 5:10:56 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-82ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 62

Figures

Figure 62. Xyelacyba myersi gen. inc. in situ in the area of the Rodriguez Triple Junction in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).