Neolepas marisindica sp. inc. Watanabe, Chen & Chan, 2018

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Neolepas marisindica sp. inc. Watanabe, Chen & Chan, 2018

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: ROPOS.COM; individualCount: 100; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: attached to active chimney; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: R2095_00131.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Neolepas marisindica sp. inc.; scientificName: Neolepas marisindica; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Hexanauplia; order: Scalpelliformes; family: Eolepadidae; genus: Neolepas; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Watanabe, Chen & Chan, 2018; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: South East Indian Ridge ; locality: Vent site 6 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 12; maximumDepthInMeters: 2468; locationRemarks: RV Pelagia Cruise INDEX2018 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 24; Identification: identifiedBy: Kate Shalaeva; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: sp. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2018-11-23; eventTime: 9:25:45 am; year: 2018; fieldNumber: INDEX2018-63ROPOS; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

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Figures

Figure 12. Neolepas marisindica sp. inc. in situ within the vent site 6 hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 12 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR).