Luffammina 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

Luffammina gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BGR/ GEOMAR; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: 2013-12-14 _11-52-16_Sonne_INDEX2013-2_055ROV08_Logo-2.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Luffammina gen. inc.; kingdom: Chromista; phylum: Foraminifera; class: Monothalamea; order: Astrorhizoida; family: Arboramminidae; genus: Luffammina; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Kamenskaya, Bagirov & Simdianov, 2002; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: Edmond/ Vent site 7 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 4; maximumDepthInMeters: 3245; locationRemarks: FS Sonne Cruise INDEX2013 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 32; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrew J. Gooday; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery - The structures resemble Luffamina atlantica from the Rainbow area of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, but their identification as a foraminifera cannot be confirmed from the photograph; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2013-12-14; eventTime: 11:52:16 am; year: 2013; fieldNumber: INDEX2013-55ROV; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

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Figures

Figure 216. Luffammina gen. inc. in situ in the Edmond-vent site 2 - vent site 7 area in Cluster 4 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR and GEOMAR).