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Peltospira smaragdina gastropod assemblage at the Les Ruches site in the Snake Pit vent field (MAR)
Sampling the Peltospira smaragdina gastropod assemblage at the Les Ruches site in the Snake Pit vent field (23°22.06'N; 44°56.99'W, Mid-Atlantic Ridge).
Keywords
Gastropods
Species
Location
23.367667N, 23.367667S, -44.949833E, -44.949833W
Acknowledgements
We thank the captain of the R/V Pourquoi pas? and its crew for their steadfast collaboration in the success of the cruise. We are particularly grateful to Marie-Anne Cambon, chief scientist who greatly supported our sampling program. We are also grateful to the ROV Victor6000 pilots for their patience and constant support. This work was supported by the "Laboratoire d'Excellence" LabexMER (ANR-10-LABX-19) and co-funded by a grant from the French government under the "Investissements d'Avenir" program. The project is part of the EMSO-Azores regional node (http://www.emso-fr.org), and EMSO ERIC Research Infrastructure (http://emso.eu/). The research program was partly funded by an ANR research grant (ANR Lucky Scales ANR-14-CE02-0008-02).