Benthodytes sp. 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

Benthodytes sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sediment; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2103_00152.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Benthodytes sp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Holothuroidea; order: Elasipodida; family: Psychropotidae; genus: Benthodytes; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Théel, 1882; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: RTJ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2468; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey Gebruk, Antonina Kremenetskaia; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-03; eventTime: 7:51:11 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

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Figures

Figure 175. Benthodytes sp. indet. in situ at the Rodriguez Triple Junction in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).