Hoplaster spinosus Perrier, in Milne-Edwards, 1882

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 : 91

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Hoplaster spinosus Perrier, in Milne-Edwards, 1882 View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Pentagonaster lepidus $ Sladen, 1889: 275–277 , pl. 57, figs. 1–4; Perrier 1894: 390; Mortensen 1927a: 77;

Hoplaster spinosus Perrier, in Milne-Edwards, 1882 View in CoL — $ Perrier 1894: 324–325, pl. 14, fig. 2; Verrill 1899: 197; Gage et al. 1983: 278; $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 151–152, pl. 36, figs. E, F; Dilman 2014: 31–32;

Hoplaster lepidus ( Sladen, 1889) View in CoL — Verrill 1899: 198.

Type locality: near the Porcupine Seabight (49°47’50”N, 12°41’46”W), SW Ireland GoogleMaps .

See: Perrier (in Milne-Edwards 1882: 48; 1894); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992).

Occurrence: East Atlantic, from the Rockall Trough ( Gage et al. 1983) and the Porcupine Seabight ( Mortensen 1927a) to off Morocco, including the Azores (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992); reported also south off Cape Town, South Africa (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

Depth: 1,795 –3,310 m (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992); AZO: 1,829 –2,595 m ( Sladen 1889, Perrier 1894).

Habitat: soft substrates, sand with pumice stones, ooze or mud (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

Remarks: Sladen (1889) described a new species, Pentagonaster lepidus based on material collected by H.M.S. Challenger in the Azores (sta 78: 37°24’N, 25°13’W, 1,829 m). However, Sladen remarked that this species was an immature form of what could prove to be conspecific to any of the Pentagonaster species described by Perrier (1885c) from the same area. Perrier (1894) added material collected by Talisman in the Azores (sta 131: 38°38’N, 27°26’W, 2,595 m) to the type material of Hoplaster spinosus collected by Travailleur in Irish waters. Though, Perrier acknowledge Sladen’ species, only after Verrill (1899) P. lepidus was synonymized with H. spinosus , a decision followed by subsequent authors (e.g., Gage et al. 1983; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

References

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

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

Gage, J. D., Billett, D. S. M., Jensen, M. & Tyler, P. A. (1983) Echinoderms of the Rockall Trough and adjacent areas. I. Crinoidea, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 45, 263 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28002

Milne-Edwards, A. (1882) Rapport sur les travaux de la commission chargee par M. Le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique d'etudier la faune sous-marine dans les grandes profondeurs de la Mediterranee et de l'ocean Atlantique. Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Litteraires, Troisieme Serie, 9, 1 - 63.

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

Sladen, W. P. (1889) Report on the Asteroidea collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Challenger series of reports, Zoology, 30, 1 - 893.

Verrill, A. E. (1899) Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10 (1), 145 - 234. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 7031