Collecting information and identification of New England Seamount Geodia species

• Main Authors: Cárdenas, Paco, Moore, Jon A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Alv_3886; Alv_3904; ALV-3885; ALV-3887; ALV-4162; ALVIN; Area/locality; AT07-35; AT08-01; AT12-01; Atlantis (1997); Campaign; Collection; DATE/TIME; DE00-11; DE00-11_17; DE02-06; DE02-06_46; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic; Delaware II; Description; Event label; Identification; Investigator; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; New England Mountains; North Atlantic Ocean; Norway; OT; Otter trawl; RB04-04_MAN708; RB200404B; Remote operated vehicle; Ronald H. Brown; ROV; Sample comment; Sample elevation; Species; SponGES; Submersible Alvin; Treatment; Uniform resource locator/link to metadata file; Vikna_Is; Folmer; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867276; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.867276

We report the first records of the sponge genus Geodia (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) from the New England Seamounts and Muir Seamount, at lower bathyal depths. Nine specimens collected between 2000 and 2005 belong to two boreal species (Geodia macandrewii and Geodia barretti) and a temp...