Cerataspis cf. monstrosus Gray, 1828

Amon, Diva J, Ziegler, Amanda F, Drazen, Jeffrey C, Grischenko, Andrei V, Leitner, Astrid B, Lindsay, Dhugal J, Voight, Janet R, Wicksten, Mary K, Young, Craig M & Smith, Craig R, 2017, Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 14598-14598 : 14598

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scientific name

Cerataspis cf. monstrosus Gray, 1828
status

 

Cerataspis cf. monstrosus Gray, 1828

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Jeffrey Drazen, Astrid Leitner; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: Adult; behavior: Feeding on bait; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Imaged only; associatedReferences: Amon DJ, Ziegler AF, Dahlgren TG, Glover AG, Goineau A, Gooday AJ, Wiklund H, Smith CR. Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Scientific Reports. 2016;6. doi: 10.1038/srep30492; Leitner A, Neuheimer A, Donlon E, Smith CR, Drazen JC. Environmental and bathymetric influences on abyssal bait-attending communities of the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.04.017; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Cerataspiscf.monstrosus; scientificName: Cerataspismonstrosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Aristeidae; genus: Cerataspis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Gray, 1828; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration contract area (UK-1) ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4046; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.8661; decimalLongitude: -116.5548; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Mary Wicksten, Jeffrey Drazen, Astrid Leitner, Diva J. Amon, Amanda Ziegler; dateIdentified: 2014; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: cf.; Event: samplingProtocol: Baited Camera; eventDate: 2013-10-09; eventTime: 12:05; habitat: Abyssal polymetallic-nodule field; fieldNumber: CA01; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: UHM; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation GoogleMaps

Notes

Very long abdominal appendages, ability to swim, toothed rostrum, red color, elongate oval antennal scale. One of the largest deep-sea shrimp.

Fig. 14

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Aristeidae

Genus

Cerataspis