Circeaster 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

Circeaster gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on hard substrates; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2094_01142.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Circeaster gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida; family: Goniasteridae; genus: Circeaster; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Koehler, 1909; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2473; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy: Christopher Mah; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-22; eventTime: 10:33:44 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-61ROPOS; fieldNotes: 1.9°C, 34.7 ppt; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

Fig. 152

Figures

Figure 152. Circeaster gen. inc. in situ at the South East Indian Ridge in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).