Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz, 1869

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), Zootaxa 4639 (1), pp. 1-231 : 102-103

Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz, 1869

Reports for the Azores:

Hemipedina cubensis ( Agassiz, 1869) — $ Koehler 1909: 221–226, pl. 1, fig. 1, pl. 30, figs. 8–17, pl. 31, fig. 21;

Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869 — Mortensen 1927a: 277, 1940a: 96–99, pl. 2, figs. 19–20, pl. 66, figs. 1–9; Serafy & Fell 1985: 20, fig. 11; García-Diez et al. 2005: 50.

Type locality: off Havana, Cuba .

See: Koehler (1909); Mortensen (1940a).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the West, in USA coast from northern Nova Scotia to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico ( Downey 1968, Serafy & Fell 1985); in the East recorded from the Azores and Canaries ( Koehler 1909).

Depth: 250– 1,187 m ( Koehler 1909, Serafy & Fell 1985); AZO: 1,187 m ( Koehler 1909).

Habitat: soft substrates ( Koehler 1909); feeds on bottom detritus ( Serafy & Fell 1985).

Larval stage: planktotrophic ( Emlet 1995).

Remarks: Caenopedina cubensis is known from the Azores by two specimens reported by Koehler (1909) on the material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1311: 37°37’00”N, 25°20’45”W, 1,187 m).