Schizopathes spp. indet.

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

Schizopathes spp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to basalt; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2105_00337.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Schizopathes spp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Antipatharia; family: Schizopathidae; genus: Schizopathes; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Brook, 1889; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: Vent site 4; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2712; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 26; Identification: identifiedBy: Tina Molodtsova; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: spp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-09; eventTime: 10:19:38 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. 124

Figures

Figure 124. Schizopathes sp. indet. in situ at the Rodriguez Triple Junction at the border of Vent site 4 in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. The individual is an example for the species complex Schizopathes spp. indet., with more images and entries in the supplementary imagery and data table. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).