Dytaster mollis ( Perrier, 1885c )

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 : 77

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583236
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scientific name	Dytaster mollis ( Perrier, 1885c )
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Treatment

Dytaster mollis ( Perrier, 1885c) View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Crenaster mollis Perrier, 1885 c— $ Perrier 1894: 310–312, pl. 18, fig. 3;

Dytaster (Crenaster) mollis Perrier, 1885 c—Mortensen 1927a: 55;

Dytaster mollis ( Perrier, 1885c) View in CoL — $ A.H. Clark 1949: 372–373; $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 55, pl. 16, figs. E–F; Dilman 2014: 26.

Type locality: Azores (38°38’00”N, 25°05’46”W) GoogleMaps .

See: Perrier (1894); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992).

Occurrence: known only from the Azores.

Depth: 2,560–2,995 m ( AZO) .

Habitat: soft mud.

Remarks: Dytaster mollis is known only from a few specimens, all less than 45 mm in length, collected by Talisman and Atlantis in the Azorean deep waters. A.M. Clark & Downey (1992) believed that this species might represent juveniles of another Dytaster species.