Benthogone rosea Koehler, 1896c

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 : 141

Benthogone rosea Koehler, 1896c

Reports for the Azores:

Benthogone rosea Koehler, 1896 — $ Hérouard 1923: 38–39; Mortensen 1927a: 363–364, figs. 215–216; Grieg 1932: 5–6; Nobre 1938: 162–163; García-Diez et al. 2005: 51.

Type locality: Bay of Biscay .

See: Koehler (1896c: 114–117, figs. 2, 3, 36, 37); Hansen (1975: 48–49, fig. 15).

Occurrence: cosmopolitan; in the Atlantic from Ireland ( Mortensen 1927a) south to Cape Verde, including the Azores, Madeira and Canaries ( Hérouard 1923, Grieg 1932); recorded elsewhere off Kenya and north of New Zealand ( Hansen 1975).

Depth: 450– 2,480 m ( Cherbonnier 1970, Hansen 1975), common at about 2,000 m ( Gage et al. 1985); AZO: 1,900 m ( Hérouard 1923).

Habitat: epibenthic deposit-feeder on muddy sand to Globigerina ooze substrates ( Hérouard 1923, Bisoll et al. 1984).

Larval stage: direct development ( Tyler et al. 1985c).

Remarks: Hérouard (1923) identified the only known specimen from the Azores, collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1334: 39°30’N, 29°02’15”W, 1,900 m).