Nausithoe sp. 'NHM_353'

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

Nausithoe sp. 'NHM_353'

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 86032849-ddd2-4690-b5e3-a3d1a7d09d3d ; recordNumber: NHM_353; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 2; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5595043; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384614 | KX384624; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Nausithoe sp. (NHM_353); scientificName: Nausithoe; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Scyphozoa; order: Coronatae; family: Nausithoidae; genus: Nausithoe; scientificNameAuthorship: Kölliker, 1853; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4150; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.888333333333; decimalLongitude: -116.68998333333; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Andy Gooday, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol: USNEL Box Core; eventDate: 2013-10-19; eventTime: 02:25; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: BC11; fieldNotes: Collected from 0-2 cm layer of box core using a 300 micron sieve; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Specimens attached to nodule. Seemingly empty tubes with transverse rings and longitudinal striations (Fig. 14).

Genetic data for this taxon (NHM_353) with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2.

Diagnosis

ID based on Genbank BLAST place the material close to Nausithoe atlantica Broch (1914). The tubes are morphologically similar to Atorella sibogae ( Leloup 1937) (top fig. p 119 in Morandini and Jarms (2005). The species was previously assigned to Stephanoscyphus based on general polyp morphology ( Morandini and Jarms 2005). Type locality of Atorella sibogae is Malayan archipelago at 794 m depth. The specimens NHM_083 and NHM_321 failed to produce any DNA data and the identification is therefor provisional.