Sipuncula Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_2177)

Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Glover, Adrian G, Bribiesca-Contreras, Guadalupe, Drennan, Regan, Stewart, Eva C D, Boolukos, Corie M, King, Lucas D, Sherlock, Emma, Smith, Craig R, Dahlgren, Thomas G & Neal, Lenka, 2023, Checklist of newly-vouchered annelid taxa from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean, based on morphology and genetic delimitation, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 86921-86921 : 86921

Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_2177)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: NHMUK ANEA 2023.582 ; recordNumber: NHM_2177; recordedBy: Adrian Glover | Helena Wiklund | Thomas Dahlgren | Madeleine Brasier; individualCount: 1; preparations: specimen stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution | DNA voucher stored in buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 0174126232; associatedSequences: OQ746912 (18S); occurrenceID: 606B9581-C249-5E0D-8616-121B842BA00F; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM_2177); scientificName: Sphaerodoridae; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Annelida; class: Polychaeta; order: Phyllodocida; family: Sphaerodoridae; taxonRank: family; scientificNameAuthorship: Malmgren, 1867; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: Area of Particular Interest APEI-6 ; verbatimLocality: APEI-6; maximumDepthInMeters: 4141; locationRemarks: Deployment BC 28; at Station A 01; from R/ V Thomas G. Thompson Cruise no. TN319; verbatimLatitude: 19 27.998; verbatimLongitude: 120 00.172; decimalLatitude: 19.46663; decimalLongitude: 120.00287; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Helena Wiklund | Lenka Neal | Thomas Dahlgren | Adrian Glover | Madeleine Brasier | Regan Drennan | Eva Stewart; dateIdentified: 2021-04-20; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: eventID: APEI6_AB02_BC28; samplingProtocol: USNEL Box Core; eventDate: 2015-03-21; eventTime: 19:50; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNotes: Collected from 0-2 cm layer of box core using a 300 micron sieve; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean.

Diagnosis

Damaged specimen (Fig. 122 ) consistent with placement within family Sphaerodoridae , based on morphology and DNA.

Figures

Figure 122. Sphaerodoridae sp. (NHM _ 2177), preserved specimen NHM _ 2177 in dorsal view. Scale bar 1 mm.