Pteraster 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

Pteraster gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BGR; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: IMG_4517.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Pteraster gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Velatida; family: Pterasteridae; genus: Pteraster; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Müller & Troschel, 1842; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: SEIR ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 11; maximumDepthInMeters: 2892; locationRemarks: FS Sonne Cruise INDEX2017 Leg 1; decimalLatitude: -27.2563; decimalLongitude: 72.7241; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 29; Identification: identifiedBy: Christopher Mah; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2017-09-24; eventTime: 3:25:09 pm; year: 2017; fieldNumber: INDEX2017-83STR; fieldNotes: 1.7°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

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Figures

Figure 158. Pteraster gen. inc. in situ at the South East Indian Ridge in Cluster 11 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).