New records of caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda) from hydrothermally influenced fields off Futuna Island, Southwest Pacific, with description of a new species assigned to the genus Alvinocaridinides Komai & Chan, 2010 (Alvinocarididae)
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
Author
Menot, Lenaick
Author
Segonzac, Michel
text
Zootaxa
2016
4098
2
298
310
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.5
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Alvinocaris komaii
Zelnio & Hourdez, 2009
Alvinocaris komaii
Zelnio & Hourdez, 2009
: 55
, figs 1–6 [
type
locality: Kilo Moana, Eastern Lau Spreading Center, Lau Basin,
2620 m
].—
Komai & Segonzac 2015
: 29
, fig. 15.—
Vereshchaka
et al
. 2015
: 4
, 15, figs 4–6.
Material examined
. DS “Nautile”, dive 1774, Kulo Lasi,
Futuna
,
14°56.5472’S
,
177°15.0061’W
,
1418 m
,
11 September 2010
, slurp gun, bottle 4,
2 specimens
, MNHN-IU-2014-12698; dive 1776, Kulo Lasi,
Futuna
,
14°55.3514’S
,
177°15.577’W
,
1406 m
,
12 September 2010
, slurp gun, bottle 3,
1 specimen
, MNHN-IU-2014- 12699.
Distribution
. Previously only known from hydrothemal vents on the Lau Basin, North
Fiji
Basin and Nifonea vent site off
Vanuatu
, at depths of
1740–2750 m
(
Zelnio & Hourdez 2009
;
Komai & Tsuchida 2015
).
Remarks.
Alvinocaris komaii
was observed and sampled in or at the immediate vicinity of a bush of the siboglinid tube worm
Arcovestia ivanovi
(
Fig. 6A
).