Melanodrymiidae 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

Melanodrymiidae fam. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sulphides; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2105_00319.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Melanodrymiidae fam. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Mollusca; class: Gastropoda; order: Neomphalida; family: Melanodrymiidae; taxonRank: Family; scientificNameAuthorship: Salvini-Plawen & Steiner, 1995; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Rodriguez Triple Junction; locality: Vent site 4; verbatimLocality: Cluster 5; maximumDepthInMeters: 2652; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 26; Identification: identifiedBy: Leon Hoffman; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: fam. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-12-09; eventTime: 9:36:47 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

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Figures

Figure 206. Melanodrymiidae fam. inc. in situ within the vent site 4 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 5 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).