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A New Find of the Whale-fall Lancelet Asymmetron inferum (Cephalochordata) near a Hydrothermal Vent at Oomuro-dashi Submarine Volcano in the Izu Islands, Pacific Coast of Japan, as a Possible Case to Prove the Stepping-stone Hypothesis
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Abstract
Two mature specimens of the whale-fall lancelet Asymmetron inferum
Nishikawa, 2004
, were collected in 2016 from reducing gravel bottom near a hydrothermal vent, 196 m deep, at Oomuro Hole of Oomuro-dashi submarine volcano in the Izu Islands, Pacific coast of Japan by using the ROV Hyper-Dolphin during the RV Shinsei-maru KS-16-6 cruise of JAMSTEC. This species has so far been known exclusively from whale-fall communities off Cape Nomamisaki, SW Kyushu, Japan, 219–254 m deep. The new find suggests the dispersal stepping-stone hypothesis of whale-fall communities for the origin of vent and/or seep fauna.
Received 15 9月 2016
Accepted 23 2月 2017
Acknowledgments:
The authors sincerely thank the captain and crew of the RV Shinsei-maru and the operating team of the ROV Hyper-Dolphin of JAMSTEC for their help in collecting specimens on board, and also the two anonymous referees for their good advices.
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