Benthothuria gen. inc.

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

Benthothuria gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: NIOZ; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sediment; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: 20141112222610407.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Benthothuria gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Holothuroidea; order: Persiculida; genus: Benthothuria; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Perrier R., 1898; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: SEIR ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 6; maximumDepthInMeters: 3123; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2014 Leg 1; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 32; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey Gebruk, Antonina Kremenetskaia; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2014-11-12; eventTime: 10:26:10 pm; year: 2014; fieldNumber: INDEX2014-24VS; fieldNotes: 1.7°C; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

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Figures

Figure 176. Benthothuria gen. inc. in situ at the South East Indian Ridge in Cluster 6 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).