Epizoanthus 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

Epizoanthus sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: in symbiosis with hermit crab; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R1905_00014.jpg; associatedOccurrences: Paguroidea superfam. inc.; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Epizoanthus sp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Zoantharia; family: Epizoanthidae; genus: Epizoanthus; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Gray, 1867; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 1 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 4; maximumDepthInMeters: 3072; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2015 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 30; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2015-11-27; eventTime: 9:20:39 am; year: 2015; fieldNumber: INDEX2015-37ROV; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 133

Figures

Figure 133. Epizoanthus sp. indet. (in symbiosis with Paguroidea superfam. inc.) in situ at the Central Indian Ridge in the surrounding of Vent site 1 in Cluster 4 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).