Ophiosphalma armigerum sp. inc. (Lyman, 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

Ophiosphalma armigerum sp. inc. (Lyman, 1878)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: DNA voucher and animal stored freeze dried; associatedMedia: R2092_00505.jpg; Taxon: taxonID: I18_0990; taxonConceptID: Ophiosphalma armigerum sp. inc.; scientificName: Ophiosphalma armigerum; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Ophiuroidea; order: Ophiurida; family: Ophiosphalmidae; genus: Ophiosphalma; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Lyman, 1878); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2498; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Sabine Stöhr; identificationRemarks: Identified by morphology and DNA of collected specimen; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-20; eventTime: 9:22:46 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-57ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; collectionCode: I18_057RO_PC6_001; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 191

Figures

Figure 191. Ophiosphalma armigerum sp. inc. in situ (a) and sampled specimen (b) at the Rodriguez Triple Junction in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).