Bathysaurus mollis sp. inc. Guenther , 1878

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

Bathysaurus mollis sp. inc. Guenther, 1878

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R1907_00295.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Bathysaurus mollis sp. inc.; scientificName: Bathysaurus mollis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Aulopiformes; family: Bathysauridae; genus: Bathysaurus; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Günther, 1878; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 1 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 4; maximumDepthInMeters: 3041; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2015 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 30; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2015-11-30; eventTime: 8:37:35 am; year: 2015; fieldNumber: INDEX2015-45ROV; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 40

Figures

Figure 40. Bathysaurus mollis sp. inc. in situ within the vent site 1 area in Cluster 4 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).