Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948

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 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583187
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scientific name	Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948
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Treatment

Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948 View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Pythonaster atlantidis $ A.H. Clark 1948: 76–77 View in CoL ; $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 339; $ Mah et al. 2012: 60–61, figs. 3A–D; Dilman 2014: 37.

Type locality: Azores (35°37’N, 30°51’W) GoogleMaps .

See: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992); Mah et al. (2012).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Hudson Canyon (38°25’N, 70°52’W; Mah et al. 2012) east to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (SW Ireland; Howell et al. 2002) and southern Azorean waters (A.H. Clark 1948).

Depth: 2,976–4,877 m ( Mah et al. 2012); AZO: 3,200 m (A.H. Clark 1948) .

Larval stage: possibly direct development (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

Remarks: currently, P. atlantidis is known from the Azores only from the type specimen collected by Atlantis , at the border between the Azorean and Meteor Seamount.