Alvinella 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

Alvinella gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to active chimney; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: DNA voucher and animal stored in 96% ethanol; associatedMedia: Alvinella sp.tif; associatedOccurrences: none; associatedSequences: COI; Taxon: taxonID: I18_1138; scientificNameID: -; taxonConceptID: Alvinella gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Annelida; class: Polychaeta; order: Terebellida; family: Alvinellidae; genus: Alvinella; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Desbruyeres & Laubier, 1980; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2449; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 24; Identification: identifiedBy: Theresa Guggolz; identificationRemarks: Identified by morphology and DNA of collected specimen; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-24; eventTime: 9:31:00 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-65ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; collectionCode: I18_065RO_B_005; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 10

Figures

Figure 10. Alvinella gen. inc. in situ (white arrow) within the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).