- 著者
- Teruaki Nishikawa Hironori Komatsu Yuichi Kameda Kenichiro Tani
- 出版者
- 日本動物分類学会
- 雑誌
- Species Diversity (ISSN:13421670)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.22, no.1, pp.69-72, 2017-05-25 (Released:2017-05-25)
- 参考文献数
- 19
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.