Salenocidaris profundi profundi ( Duncan, 1877 )

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 : 174

Erroneous— Salenocidaris profundi profundi ( Duncan, 1877)

Reports for the Azores:

Salenia profundi Duncan, 1877 — Mortensen 1927a: 289, fig. 164;

Salenocidaris profundi ( Duncan, 1877) — Mortensen 1935: 354–357, pl. 85, figs. 1, 2, 29, 30, 35, 36, pl. 86, figs. 1, 2; Salenocidaris profundi profundi ( Duncan, 1877) — García-Diez et al. 2005: 50; Mironov 2014: 123.

Type locality:? Cape of S„o Vicente, Portugal .

See: Duncan (1877: 256–257, as Salenia profundi ); Mortensen (1935).

Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from Iceland (Faroe-Iceland banks) and the Bay of Biscay to the Canaries ( Mortensen 1935); reported elsewhere from Tristan da Cunha and Indonesia ( Mironov 2014).

Depth: 1,700–3,470 m ( Mironov 2014).

Habitat: soft sediments ( Grieg 1932).

Remarks: the geographic distribution of Salenocidaris profundi in the Atlantic is poorly understood due to frequent misidentifications in the literature. Some authors such as H.L. Clark (1925) considered the possibility of this species being conspecific with other Atlantic species, such as S. varispina and S. hastigera . Mortensen (1935) stated that the latter species was restricted to the Pacific and transferred all reports of S. hastigera in the Atlantic to S. profundi . Recently, Mironov (2006, 2014) confirmed the occurrence of S. hastigera in the Atlantic including the Azores. If all the reports for the archipelago are traced back to original records by Koehler (1895a, 1895b, 1898, 1909) no record of S. profundi sensu stricto remains in the archipelago. See remarks under S. hastigera .