Freyastera 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

Freyastera gen. inc.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BGR/ GEOMAR; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: on sediment; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedMedia: 2013-12-12 _10-48-06_Sonne_INDEX2013-2_049ROV06_Logo.jpg; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Freyastera gen. inc.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Brisingida; family: Freyellidae; genus: Freyastera; taxonRank: Genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Downey, 1986; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: Central Indian Ridge ; locality: Edmond/ vent site 2 ; verbatimLocality: Cluster 4; maximumDepthInMeters: 3234; locationRemarks: FS Sonne Cruise INDEX2013 Leg 2; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 31; Identification: identifiedBy: Christopher Mah; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: gen. inc.; Event: eventDate: 2013-12-12; eventTime: 10:48:06 am; year: 2013; fieldNumber: INDEX2013-49ROV; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: DZMB; datasetName: INDEX; basisOfRecord: Human Observation

Notes

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Figures

Figure 146. Freyastera gen. inc. in situ in the surrounding area of the Edmond hydrothermal vent field in Cluster 4 of the INDEX area. Image corresponds with the data (Image attribution: BGR and GEOMAR).