Bathypterois sp. 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

Bathypterois sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sediment; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R1914_00197.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Bathypterois sp. indet.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Aulopiformes; family: Ipnopidae; genus: Bathypterois; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Günther, 1878; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: EGS ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 4; maximumDepthInMeters: 3301; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2015 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 31; Identification: identifiedBy: Thomas D. Linley; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. indet.; Event: eventDate: 2015-12-07; eventTime: 7:29:18 am; year: 2015; fieldNumber: INDEX2015-60ROV; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 41

Figures

Figure 41. Bathypterois sp. indet. 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).