Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca
Author
Amon, Diva J
Author
Ziegler, Amanda F
Author
Drazen, Jeffrey C
Author
Grischenko, Andrei V
Author
Leitner, Astrid B
Author
Lindsay, Dhugal J
Author
Voight, Janet R
Author
Wicksten, Mary K
Author
Young, Craig M
Author
Smith, Craig R
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
14598
14598
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e14598
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e14598
1314-2828-5-14598
cf. Nematocarcinus morphospecies
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
Diva J. Amon, Amanda F. Ziegler
; individualCount:
1
; lifeStage:
Adult
; behavior: On seafloor; 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; Taxon: taxonConceptID: cf. Nematocarcinus morphospecies; scientificName: Nematocarcinus sp.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Nematocarcinidae; genus: Nematocarcinus; taxonRank: genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Milne-Edwards, 1881; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality:
UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration contract area (UK-1)
; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4032; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude:
13.8629
; decimalLongitude:
-116.5485
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy:
Mary Wicksten, Jeffrey Drazen, Astrid Leitner, Diva J. Amon, Amanda Ziegler
; dateIdentified: 2014; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: cf.; Event: samplingProtocol:
Remotely Operated Vehicle
; eventDate:
2013-10-21
; eventTime: 4:59; habitat: Abyssal polymetallic-nodule field; fieldNumber: Dive 6 (RV06); Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
UHM
; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
Diva J. Amon, Amanda F. Ziegler
; individualCount:
1
; lifeStage:
Adult
; behavior: On seafloor; 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; Taxon: taxonConceptID: cf. Nematocarcinus morphospecies; scientificName: Nematocarcinus sp.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Nematocarcinidae; genus: Nematocarcinus; taxonRank: genus; scientificNameAuthorship: Milne-Edwards, 1881; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality:
UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration contract area (UK-1)
; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4021; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude:
13.8583
; decimalLongitude:
-116.5472
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 25; Identification: identifiedBy:
Mary Wicksten, Jeffrey Drazen, Astrid Leitner, Diva J. Amon, Amanda Ziegler
; dateIdentified: 2014; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; identificationQualifier: cf.; Event: samplingProtocol:
Remotely Operated Vehicle
; eventDate:
2013-10-21
; eventTime: 2:30; habitat: Abyssal polymetallic-nodule field; fieldNumber: Dive 6 (RV06); Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
UHM
; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation
Notes
Enormously long and slender legs and antennae, slender body, toothed rostrum (not visible in dorsal view), abdominal appendages usually not visible in dorsal view.
Fig. 17