Regioscalpellum regium sp. inc. (Wyville Thomson, 1873)

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

Regioscalpellum regium sp. inc. (Wyville Thomson, 1873)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to sulfides; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2095_00029-1.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Regioscalpellum regium sp. inc.; scientificName: Regioscalpellum regium; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Hexanauplia; order: Scalpelliformes; family: Scalpellidae; genus: Regioscalpellum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Wyville Thomson, 1873); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2380; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 24; Identification: identifiedBy: Kate Shalaeva; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-23; eventTime: 5:50:33 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-63ROPOS; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 13

Figures

Figure 13. Regioscalpellum regium sp. inc. in situ within the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).