Verrucidae fam. 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

Verrucidae fam. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to sulfides; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2095_00029-2.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Verrucidae fam. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Hexanauplia; order: Sessilia; family: Verrucidae; taxonRank: Family; scientificNameAuthorship: Darwin, 1854; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2380; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 24; Identification: identifiedBy: Kate Shalaeva; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: fam. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-23; eventTime: 5:50:33 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-63ROPOS; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 14

Figures

Figure 14. Verrucidae fam. inc. in situ within the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).