Deep-sea communities dominated by the giant clam, Calyptogena soyoae, along the slope foot of Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Central Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Hashimoto ◽  
Suguru Ohta ◽  
Takeo Tanaka ◽  
Hiroshi Hotta ◽  
Seiji Matsuzawa ◽  
...  
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Deep Sea ◽  
Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4299 (3) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
HISANORI KOHTSUKA

A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman, 1896, B. cinctus, is described and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female specimen collected from Sagami Bay, central Japan, at 218–318 m depth. The new species is morphologically most similar to B. rufioculus Komai & Yamada, 2011, known only from shallow water cave of Ie Island (depths 14–17 m), Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, but many characters, including the proportionally shorter rostrum, the well developed suborbital lobe of the carapace, and the presence of a spiniform seta on the ventral surface of the pereopod 1 palm, immediately distinguish the new species from B. rufioculus. Bresilia cinctus n. sp. is the first species of the genus known from the Japanese main islands. The discovery of the new species led us to reassess the merit of the informal division of Bresilia proposed by Komai & Yamada (2010). An identification key to the ten named species of Bresilia is presented. 


Radiocarbon ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiyuki Masuzawa ◽  
Hiroyuki Kitagawa ◽  
Takeshi Nakatsuka ◽  
Nobuhiko Handa ◽  
Toshio Nakamura

We collected pore waters using an in situ pore water-squeezer for a submersible Shinkai 2000 at six depths beneath the sediment surface within a deep-sea “cold seep” giant clam community off Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan. A box core sample was also collected ca. 4.5 km east of the community and pore waters were separated. Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) was extracted and purified in a vacuum line and 14C concentration was determined with a Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometer at Nagoya University after conversion to graphite targets using a batch Fe-catalytic hydrogen reduction method. ∆14C values decreased with increasing depth to −938‰ at the sulfate concentration minimum. This indicates that methane used for the active reduction of sulfate and formation of hydrogen sulfide, which is used by symbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria in gills of the giant clams, is almost dead and is likely supplied from the deep. ∆14C values of DIC vary linearly with δ13C values along a mixing line between that in the bottom water and that produced by the oxidation of dead methane. The δ13C value of DIC oxidized from dead methane is estimated to be ca. −45‰.


2015 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Shin'ichi Mori ◽  
Naoki Takahashi ◽  
Kenichiro Shibata ◽  
Yuichiro Tanaka ◽  
Daiji Hirata ◽  
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Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE

A new deep-sea stalked barnacle, Ashinkailepas kermadecensis sp. nov. has been recovered from a cold-water seep at depths of 1165 metres in the vicinity of the Kermadec Ridge to the northeast of the North Island, New Zealand. There are now two species of Ashinkailepas—the other, Ashinkailepas seepiophila Yamaguchi, Newman & Hashimoto, 2004, occurs in deep, cold seeps off central Japan. As there are two species within Ashinkailepas, formal diagnoses are provided for both taxa.


1973 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuzo Marumo ◽  
Sachiko Nagasawa
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