Bivalve
NHMUK-1887.2.9.2415
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Licence:
Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Scientific name:
Neaera filocarinata
Voyage:
HMS Challenger (1872-76)
Date Collected:
14 August 1873 - 14 August 1873
Form:
Dry
Type status:
Syntype;Holotype
Station:
98
Taxonomy
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Bivalvia
Order:
Anomalodesmata
Family:
Cuspidariidae
Genus:
Neaera Gray, 1833
Species:
Neaera filocarinata Smith, 1885
Station/Area Information
Station:
98
Date collected:
14/08/1873
Area:
West of Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Water body:
Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean
FAO:
34
Depth (Fathoms):
1750 fathoms
Decimal Latitude:
9.35
Decimal Longitude:
-18.47
Surface Temperature:
78.2°F
Bottom Temperature:
36.7°F
Gear:
Dredge
Sediment sample:
Globigerina ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom:
1.02805
Specific Gravity at water surface:
1.02339
Temperature at 25 fathoms:
66.5°F
Temperature at 50 fathoms:
59.3°F
Temperature at 75 fathoms:
55.5°F
Temperature at 100 fathoms:
54.2°F
Temperature at 125 fathoms:
53.1°F
Temperature at 150 fathoms:
52°F
Temperature at 200 fathoms:
49.7°F
Temperature at 300 fathoms:
45.2°F
Temperature at 400 fathoms:
42°F
Temperature at 500 fathoms:
41.2°F
