Ophiura ljungmani ( Lyman, 1878 )

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 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D212-0464-FFE6-FF33-FACF74D51128

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scientific name

Ophiura ljungmani ( Lyman, 1878 )
status

 

Ophiura ljungmani ( Lyman, 1878) View in CoL View at ENA

Reports for the Azores:

Ophioglypha lepida $ Lyman, 1878: 70–71 , pl. 3, figs. 71–73, 1882: 43–44, pl. 4, figs. 1–3; Ophioglypha ljungmanni Lyman, 1878 — $ Koehler 1909: 152, 1921a: 3; Ophioglypha thouleti Koehler, 1895 c— $ Koehler 1909: 158–159, pl. 6, fig. 6; pl. 26, figs. 1–2; Ophiura ljungmani ( Lyman, 1878) View in CoL — Mortensen 1927a: 240–242, fig. 130; $ Paterson 1985: 118–120, fig. 44; Borges et al. 2002:

27–31, figs. 15a–c, 16a–f, 17a–d, 18a–c; García-Diez et al. 2005: 49; $ St̂hr & Segonzac 2005: 386; Hernández-Herrejon et al. 2008: 101–102, figs. 3E–F; $ Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 80, fig. 1D; Smirnov et al. 2014: 205; Ophiura lepida ( Lyman, 1878) — Mortensen 1927a: 234.

Type locality: Brazil (09°07’S, 34°50’W) GoogleMaps .

See: Mortensen (1933a: 83–84); Paterson (1985); Borges et al. (2002).

Occurrence: Atlantic, from Labrador Basin to Brazil, eastwards from Iceland to southern Africa ( Paterson 1985), including the Azores, Madeira ( Koehler 1909), Canaries ( Koehler 1906b) and Ascension Island ( Lyman 1882).

Depth: 101– 6,398 m ( Smirnov et al. 2014); AZO: 789– 2,968 m ( St̂hr & Segonzac 2005, Martynov & Litvinova 2008).

Habitat: mainly soft bottoms, coralligenous sand, mud to ooze ( Koehler 1909, Lyman 1883); can form large aggregations ( Borges et al. 2002).

Larval stage: planktotrophic ( Schoener 1972).

Remarks: Ophiura ljungmani was reported from the Azorean waters under three different names: Ophioglypha lepida by Lyman (1878, 1882; H.M.S. Challenger), Ophioglypha ljungmanni and Ophioglypha thouleti both by Koehler (1909, 1921a; Princesse Alice). Later, Koehler (1914a) found O. thouleti to be identical with Lyman’s O. ljungmanni . In turn, Mortensen (1933a) found the diagnosing characters that separate O. lepida from O. ljungmani mostly size related and established the synonymy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Ophiurida

Family

Ophiuridae

Genus

Ophiura

Loc

Ophiura ljungmani ( Lyman, 1878 )

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P. 2019
2019
Loc

Ophioglypha thouleti

Koehler 1895
1895
Loc

Ophioglypha lepida

$ Lyman 1878: 70
1878
Loc

Ophioglypha ljungmanni

Lyman 1878
1878
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