Sicyonis kuznetsovi N. Sanamyan, K. Sanamyan, Galkin, Ivin et Bocharova, 2021

Sicyonis kuznetsovi N. Sanamyan, K. Sanamyan, Galkin, Ivin et Bocharova, 2021 View in CoL

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Sicyonis kuznetsovi Sanamyan et al., 2021: 400 View in CoL .

MATERIAL. LV-75-17, 55.4553ºN 167. 2668ºE – 55.4498ºN 167.2651ºE, depth 2131– 1976 m, one specimen collected (sample 4) and one specimen photographed.

REMARKS. This large (about 18–20 cm in diameter of expanded tentacular crown) sea anemone resembles Sicyonis denisovi but may be distinguished by plain light rose-beige color and by presence of only about 80 tentacles arranged in three or four cycles in specimens of similar size (in S. denisovi they are two times more numerous). Only two specimens were photographically documented (one of which was collected) on the northern slope of the Piip Volcano at depths of about 1976–2131 m on large stones lying on the soft bottom in a community dominated by the enteropneust Torquaratoridae and the benthic jellyfish of the family Rhopalonematidae (see Rybakova et al., 2020).