Uroptychus Henderson, 1888

Arnes-Urgelles, Camila, Buglass, Salome, Ahyong, Shane T., Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo, Wicksten, Mary K. & Marsh, Leigh, 2020, Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 54482-54482 : 54482

Uroptychus Henderson, 1888

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: associated with octocorallia; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1925/45600648622_c59bfa2e89_o.png; occurrenceID: H1435_071407_Uroptychus_sp_inc_compressus; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106833; scientificName: Uroptychus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Chirostylidae; genus: Uroptychus; scientificNameAuthorship: Henderson, 1888; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: North ; verbatimLocality: East of Wolf; minimumDepthInMeters: 812; maximumDepthInMeters: 812; decimalLatitude: 1.2243; decimalLongitude: -91.1028; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Uroptychuscompressus sp. inc.; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 06-27-15; eventTime: 7:14:07 AM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Uroptychus Henderson, 1888. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106833 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

Species of Uroptychus are characteristic inhabitants of the soft coral Chrysogorgia. Uroptychus compressus has been reported in the area of study. Fig. 5

Figures

Figure 5. Uroptychus compressus sp. inc.