Sternostylus defensus (Benedict, 1902)

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

Sternostylus defensus (Benedict, 1902)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: associated with antipatharia; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48419070577_79a7040fb0_o.png; occurrenceID: H1443_022005_Sternostylus_defensus; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1310473; scientificName: Sternostylusdefensus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Sternostylidae; genus: Sternostylus; specificEpithet: defensus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Benedict, 1902); taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: Far North ; verbatimLocality: Northwest of Darwin; minimumDepthInMeters: 1210; maximumDepthInMeters: 1210; decimalLatitude: 1.8779; decimalLongitude: -92.128; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 35; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Sternostylusdefensus; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 07-02-15; eventTime: 5:35:34 AM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Sternostylusdefensus (Benedict, 1902). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1310473 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

This observation is a new record for Galapagos. Fig. 7

Figures

Figure 7. Sternostylus defensus