Halosauropsis macrochir gen. inc. ( Guenther , 1878)

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

Halosauropsis macrochir gen. inc. ( Guenther, 1878)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Swimming; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2103_00196.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Halosauropsis macrochir gen. inc.; scientificName: Halosauropsis macrochir; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Notacanthiformes; family: Halosauridae; genus: Halosauropsis; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: ( Günther, 1878); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: RTJ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2431; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-03; eventTime: 9:26:58 am; 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. 53

Figures

Figure 53. Halosauropsis macrochir gen. inc. in situ at the Rodriguez Triple Junction in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).