Ophiactis canotia Lyman, 1879

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 : 24

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scientific name	Ophiactis canotia Lyman, 1879
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Reports for the Azores:

Ophiactis canotia $ Lyman, 1879: 40–41 , pl. 13, figs. 353–355, 1882: 119–120, pl. 19, figs. 16–18; $ H.L. Clark 1915: 260; H.L. Clark 1918: 305; Mortensen 1927a: 199, 1933a: 48–49, fig. 29; $ Downey 1969: 84.

Type locality: Azores (38°30’N, 31°14’W) GoogleMaps .

See: Lyman (1882).

Occurrence: known only from the type material collected in the Azores ( Lyman 1882).

Depth: 1,830 m ( AZO; Lyman 1882).

Habitat: soft bottoms ( Globigerina ooze; Lyman 1882).

Remarks: Ophiactis canotia is only known from two specimens described by Lyman (1879) collected at one station in the Azores (H.M.S. Challenger, sta 73). This species is quite close to another deep-water species native to the Azores, O. abyssicola (only distinguished on the basis of dorsal plates outline) and might prove to be conspecific ( Mortensen 1933a).

References

Clark, H. L. (1915) Catalogue of recent ophiurans. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 25 (4), 165 - 376.

Clark, H. L. (1918) Brittle stars, New and Old. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 62, 265 - 338.

Downey, M. E. (1969) Catalog of Recent Ophiuroid Type Specimens in Major Collections in the United States. United States National Museum Bulletin, 293, 1 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.293

Lyman, T. (1879) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the Challenger expedition. Part II. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 6 (2), 17 - 83.

Lyman, T. (1882) Report on the Ophiuroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 5 (14), 1 - 386.

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

Mortensen, T. (1933 a) Ophiuroidea. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, 4 b (8), 1 - 121.