Ophiosphalma 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

Ophiosphalma gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2094_01004.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Ophiosphalma gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Ophiuroidea; order: Ophiurida; family: Ophiosphalmidae; genus: Ophiosphalma; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: H.L. Clark, 1941; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2458; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Sabine Stöhr; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-22; eventTime: 5:52:04 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-61ROPOS; 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 190. Ophiosphalma gen. inc. in situ in the surrounding area of the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).