Abyssoprimnoa gemina Cairns, 2015

Dahlgren, Thomas G, Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Amon, Diva J, Ikebe, Chiho, Watling, Les, Smith, Craig R & Glover, Adrian G, 2016, Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 9277-9277 : 9277

Abyssoprimnoa gemina Cairns, 2015

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 6e976c27-c70c-434a-8be3-f6155e36567f ; recordNumber: NHM_341; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 1; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5594618; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384618 | KX384626; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Abyssoprimnoagemina; scientificName: Abyssoprimnoagemina; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Primnoidae; genus: Abyssoprimnoa; specificEpithet: gemina; scientificNameAuthorship: Cairns, 2015; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4111; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.761666666667; decimalLongitude: -116.46033333333; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Stephen Cairns, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Diva Amon; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol: Bowers & Connelly Megacore; eventDate: 2013-10-18; eventTime: 15:54; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: MC08; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Small uniplanar dichotomously branched colonies, having paired globose polyps (Fig. 6).

Genetic data for this taxon with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2.

Diagnosis

Species described by Stephen Cairns based on this specimen (NHM_341) from UK-1 claim area and additional material collected in the German claim area ( Cairns 2015). No genetic matches at Genbank but forms a cluster with Narella and Primnoa sequences published.