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
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Amon, Diva J
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Ikebe, Chiho
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Watling, Les
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Smith, Craig R
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Glover, Adrian G
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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
Abyssoprimnoa gemina Cairns, 2015
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
6e976c27-c70c-434a-8be3-f6155e36567f
; recordNumber: NHM_341; recordedBy:
Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Maggie Georgieva
; individualCount:
1
; preparations: tissue voucher stored in 80% non-denatured ethanol aqueous solution and DNA voucher stored in elution buffer; otherCatalogNumbers: 5594618; associatedSequences: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/KX384618 | KX384626; Taxon: taxonConceptID: Abyssoprimnoagemina; scientificName: Abyssoprimnoagemina; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Primnoidae; genus: Abyssoprimnoa; specificEpithet: gemina; scientificNameAuthorship: Cairns, 2015; Location: waterBody: Pacific; stateProvince: Clarion Clipperton Zone; locality:
UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration claim UK-1
; verbatimLocality: UK-1 Stratum A; maximumDepthInMeters: 4111; locationRemarks: RV Melville Cruise MV1313; decimalLatitude:
13.761666666667
; decimalLongitude:
-116.46033333333
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
Stephen Cairns, Adrian Glover, Helena Wiklund, Thomas Dahlgren, Diva Amon
; dateIdentified: 2016-03-01; identificationRemarks: identified by DNA and morphology; Event: samplingProtocol:
Bowers & Connelly Megacore
; eventDate:
2013-10-18
; eventTime: 15:54; habitat: Abyssal plain; fieldNumber: MC08; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
NHMUK
; collectionCode:
ZOO
; datasetName: ABYSSLINE; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Description
Small uniplanar dichotomously branched colonies, having paired globose polyps (Fig. 6).
Genetic data for this taxon with new GenBank accession numbers are provided in Table 2.
Diagnosis
Species described by Stephen Cairns based on this specimen (NHM_341) from UK-1 claim area and additional material collected in the German claim area (
Cairns 2015
). No genetic matches at Genbank but forms a cluster with
Narella
and
Primnoa
sequences published.