Porcellanaster ceruleus Thomson, 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 : 82

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Porcellanaster ceruleus Thomson, 1877 View in CoL View at ENA

Reports for the Azores:

Porcellanaster inermis $ Perrier, 1885c: 50–53, 1894: 212–215 View in CoL , pl. 15, fig. 3; Mortensen 1927a: 52;

Porcellanaster ceruleus Thomson, 1877 View in CoL — $ Lieberkind 1935: 5–19, figs. 1–5, pl. 2, figs. 1–8, pl. 3, fig. 12, pl. 5, figs. 16–17; Madsen 1961: 126–142, figs. 22–24; Dilman 2006: 179–180, 2008: 137, 2013: 568, 2014: 29.

Type locality: off Delaware, USA (38°34’N, 72°10’W) GoogleMaps .

See: Lieberkind (1935); Madsen (1961); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992: 100–101, figs. 18a–c, 19d, f, i, pl. 27, figs. A–Q); Dilman (2006; 2008).

Occurrence: deep-water cosmopolitan, except in the Antarctic; from the Davis Strait south to off Cape Cod, eastwards from south of Iceland along the European and African continental slopes to South Africa ( Madsen 1961), and in the Azores and the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ( Perrier 1894, Dilman 2008).

Depth: 1,158 –6,035 m, mostly between 1,600 –3,000 m ( Madsen 1961); AZO: 2,995 m ( Perrier 1894).

Habitat: soft substrates, mud, Globigerina ooze to clay ( Madsen 1961); juveniles prey on foraminiferans and adults are deposit-feeders, burrowing in the sediment ( Sumida et al. 2001).

Larval stage: lecithotrophic ( Sumida et al. 2001).

Remarks: Perrier (1885b, c, 1894) described Porcellanaster inermis , to house the specimens collected by Talisman at waters between Cape Verde and NE Africa (sta 101, 1883: 16°38’00”N, 18°23’46”W, 3200 m) and in the Azores (sta 131, 1883: 38°38’N, 25°05’46”W, 2995 m). On his report on the porcellanasterids from the Danish- Ingolf expedition, Lieberkind (1935) established the synonymy of P. inermis with P. ceruleus . With the exception of the three specimens collected by Talisman no other animals belonging to this species were ever reported from Azorean waters.

References

Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Natural History Museum Publications. Chapman & Hall, London, 794 pp.

Dilman, A. B. (2006) Asteroid fauna of the Reykjanes Ridge. In: Mironov, A. N., Gebruk, A. V. & Southward, A. J. (Eds.), Biogeography of the North Atlantic Seamounts. KMK Scientific Press, Russian Academy of Sciences, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, pp. 177 - 192.

Dilman, A. B. (2008) Asteroid fauna of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge with description of a new species Hymenasterides mironovi sp. nov. Marine Biology Research, 4 (1 - 2), 131 - 151. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000701821736

Dilman, A. B. (2013) Asteroid fauna of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: additional records. Marine Biology Research, 9 (5 - 6), 563 - 586. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000.2012.749993

Dilman A. B. (2014) Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Asteroidea. Invertebrate Zoology, 11 (1), 25 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / invertzool. 11.1.05

Lieberkind, I. (1935) Asteroidea. I. Porcellanasteridae. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, Hagerup, Copenhagen, 4 (10), 1 - 37.

Madsen, F. J. (1961) The Porcellanasteridae. A monographic revision of an abyssal group of sea stars. Galathea Reports, 4, 33 - 174.

Mortensen, T. (1927 a) Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Oxford University Press, viii + 471 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 6841

Perrier, M. E. (1885 c) Premiere note preliminaire des les Echinodermes, recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, 22 (8), 1 - 72.

Perrier, M. E. (1885 b) Sur les stellerides recueillis durant la mission du Talisman. Comptes-rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 101, 884 - 887.

Perrier, M. E. (1894) Stellerides. Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman. Masson, Paris, 431 pp.

Sumida, P. Y. G., Tyler, P. A & Billett, D. S. M (2001) Early juvenile development of deep-sea asteroids of the NE Atlantic Ocean, with notes on juvenile bathymetric distributions. Acta Zoologica, 82 (1), 11 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1463 - 6395.2001.00058. x

Thomson, W. (1877) The voyage of the Challenger : the Atlantic. Vol. 1. Macmillan, London, 424 pp.