Grimpoteuthis 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

Grimpoteuthis gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Swimming; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2103_00310.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Grimpoteuthis gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Mollusca; class: Cephalopoda; order: Octopoda; family: Opisthoteuthidae; genus: Grimpoteuthis; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Robson, 1932; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: RTJ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2501; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Kathrin Bolstad; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-03; eventTime: 12:50:35 pm; 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. 196

Figures

Figure 196. Grimpoteuthis gen. inc. in situ at the Rodriguez Triple Junction in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).