Styracaster 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

Styracaster gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BGR; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sediment; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: 17MFT Fotos 2013-321-2.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Styracaster gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Paxillosida; family: Porcellanasteridae; genus: Styracaster; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Sladen, 1883; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: MESO ; verbatimLocality: outside INDEX claim; maximumDepthInMeters: 2840; locationRemarks: FS Sonne Cruise INDEX2013 Leg 1; decimalLatitude: -23.3860; decimalLongitude: 69.2390; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 28; Identification: identifiedBy: Christopher Mah; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2013-11-25; eventTime: 4:58:30 am; year: 2013; fieldNumber: INDEX2013-17MFT; fieldNotes: 1.8°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 148

Figures

Figure 148. Styracaster gen. inc. in situ in the MESO area outside the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).