Bathypolypus 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

Bathypolypus sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Crawling on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2100_00033.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Bathypolypus sp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Mollusca; class: Cephalopoda; order: Octopoda; family: Bathypolypodidae; genus: Bathypolypus; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Grimpe, 1921; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 5 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 11; maximumDepthInMeters: 2908; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 29; Identification: identifiedBy: Kathrin Bolstad; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-28; eventTime: 6:31:00 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-73ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.7°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 194

Figures

Figure 194. Bathypolypus sp. indet. in situ in the surrounding of the vent site 5 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 11 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).