Voragonema tatsunoko Lindsay & Pagès, 2010, sp. nov.

Voragonema tatsunoko sp. nov.

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Synonymy. “ Voragonema sp.” in Lindsay & Miyake 2009, 2K1337SS 6g, 2K1337SS6h.

Type material. Two specimens collected immediately above the sea floor at 1967 m depth (temperature 2.17˚C, salinity 34.58, dissolved oxygen concentration 2.3 ml/L) at 15:18 and 15:24 by a suction sampler outfitted to the crewed submersible Shinkai 2000 on 7 April 2002 during dive number 1337 at 34˚ 43.21'N, 138˚ 35.06'E. The holotype [2K1337SS 6g] has been deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo, under registration number NSMT-Co-1533. The paratype is deposited in the JAMSTEC biological sample collection under registration number 2K1337SS6h (048250).

Additional material examined. The holotype of V. l a c i n i a t a Bouillon, Pagès & Gili 2001, deposited in the Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg (Germany). One individual of V. laciniata [NIWA 35989] sampled by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand, in a non-closing Rough-bottom (orange roughy) trawl (ORH) that trawled the seafloor at 916–930 m depth on 12 February 2008 at Ross Sea Station TAN0802/41 (74.7˚S, 167.0˚E) as part of Oceans Survey 2020 for the International Polar Year and the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML).

Etymology. The specific epithet tatsunoko (Japanese) means “child of the dragon” and refers to the legendary dragon king, whose palace is at the bottom of the sea.