Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley, 1859)

Dahlgren, Thomas G, Wiklund, Helena, Rabone, Muriel, Amon, Diva J, Ikebe, Chiho, Watling, Les, Smith, Craig R & Glover, Adrian G, 2016, Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 9277-9277 : 9277

Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley, 1859)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 8cab45b5-4868-4d7a-a2a1-92f8b9ab3649 ; recordNumber: NHM_477; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva; individualCount: 1; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5595047; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384609 | KX384617; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Abylopsiseschscholtzii; scientificName: Abylopsiseschscholtzii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Hydrozoa; order: Siphonophorae; family: Abylidae; genus: Abylopsis; specificEpithet: eschscholtzii; scientificNameAuthorship: Huxley, 1859; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4160; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.726616666667; decimalLongitude: -116.67; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol: USNEL Box Core; eventDate: 2013-10-22; eventTime: 07:25; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: BC14; fieldNotes: Collected from 0-2 cm layer of box core using a 300 micron sieve; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: NHMUK; collectionCode: ZOO; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Pentagonal, transparent disk found in a boxcore sample, possibly from the water column (Fig. 11). The animal cavity contained sediment.

Genetic data for this taxon with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2.

Diagnosis

The CO1 data suggest that the specimen is identical to Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley, 1859) (Genbank Accession # GQ119937). No type locality was assigned to the name in the species description. The original description state that the species occurred in 'all the seas that was traversed' ( Huxley 1859).