Isididae Bathygorgia 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

Isididae Bathygorgia gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2105_00090.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Isididae Bathygorgia gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Isididae; genus: Bathygorgia; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Wright, 1885; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: Vent site 4; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2663; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 26; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-09; eventTime: 6:49:45 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-95ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 109

Figures

Figure 109. Isididae Bathygorgia gen. inc. in situ at the Rodriguez Triple Junction within Vent site 4 in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).