Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria Author Dahlgren, Thomas G Author Wiklund, Helena Author Rabone, Muriel Author Amon, Diva J Author Ikebe, Chiho Author Watling, Les Author Smith, Craig R Author Glover, Adrian G text Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 9277 9277 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e9277 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e9277 1314-2828-4-9277 Nausithoe sp. 'NHM_353' Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: 86032849-ddd2-4690-b5e3-a3d1a7d09d3d ; recordNumber: NHM_353; recordedBy: Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva ; individualCount: 2 ; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5595043; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384614 | KX384624; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Nausithoe sp. (NHM_353); scientificName: Nausithoe; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Scyphozoa; order: Coronatae; family: Nausithoidae; genus: Nausithoe; scientificNameAuthorship: Koelliker , 1853; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality: UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1 ; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4150; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude: 13.888333333333 ; decimalLongitude: -116.68998333333 ; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Andy Gooday, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren ; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol: USNEL Box Core ; eventDate: 2013-10-19 ; eventTime: 02:25; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: BC11; 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 Specimens attached to nodule. Seemingly empty tubes with transverse rings and longitudinal striations (Fig. 14). Genetic data for this taxon (NHM_353) with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2. Diagnosis ID based on Genbank BLAST place the material close to Nausithoe atlantica Broch (1914) . The tubes are morphologically similar to Atorella sibogae ( Leloup 1937 ) (top fig. p 119 in Morandini and Jarms (2005) . The species was previously assigned to Stephanoscyphus based on general polyp morphology ( Morandini and Jarms 2005 ). Type locality of Atorella sibogae is Malayan archipelago at 794 m depth. The specimens NHM_083 and NHM_321 failed to produce any DNA data and the identification is therefor provisional.