Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872

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 : 32-33

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Reports for the Azores:

Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 — $ Koehler 1909: 182; Farran 1913: 38–39, fig. 9d; Mortensen 1927a: 194, figs. 105.5–6; Grieg 1932: 37; García-Diez et al. 2005: 49.

Type locality: Norway .

See: Sars (1872: 8–10); Paterson (1985: 47–48, fig. 20).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, Northeast American coast, north of Cape Hatteras to Greenland and Iceland, eastwards to Scandinavia, southwards to the Western Sahara ( Paterson (1985), including the Azores ( Koehler 1909), Madeira ( Jesus & Abreu (1998), Canaries ( Madsen 1970), and the Atlantis Seamount (A.H. Clark 1949) .

Depth: 35– 3,500 m ( Mortensen (1927a), an upper bathyal species that may occur in shallow waters at higher latitudes, such as the Norwegian Sea ( Gage et al. 1983); AZO: 880 m ( Koehler 1909).

Habitat: rock, coral, mud to gravel and detritic substrates ( Farran 1913; Cherbonnier 1969, 1970); it can form dense beds ( Metaxas & Giffin 2004).

Remarks: the record of Ophiacantha abyssicola in the Azores is based on a single small specimen collected by Princesse Alice (sta 837: 37°55’N, 25°24’15”W, 880 m) and identified by Koehler (1909).

References

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Cherbonnier, G. (1970) Echinodermes recoltes par la Thalassa au large de cotes d'espagne et du Golfe de Gascogne (18 - 25 AOUT 1968). Bulletin Museum National Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2 ª Serie, 41 (5), 1266 - 1277.

Clark, A. H. (1949) Echinoderms from the mid-Atlantic dredged by lhe Atlantis in the summer of 1948. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 39, 371 - 377.

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Garcia-Diez, C., Porteiro, F. M., Meirinho, A., Cardigos, F. & Tempera, F. (2005) Taxonomic review of selected invertebrate groups collected during the Campaigns of the Prince Albert I of Monaco in the Azorean waters. Arquipelago. Life and Marine Sciences, 22 A, 35 - 59.

Grieg, J. A. (1932) Echinodermata. Report of the scientific results of the Michael Sars North Atlantic deep sea expedition 1910, 3 (2), 1 - 47.

Jesus, D. & Abreu, A. D. (1998) Contribution to the knowledge of the soft bottom echinoderms of Madeira Island. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal (Historia Natural), 50 (286), 59 - 69., 4 figs.

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Metaxas, A. & Giffin, B. (2004) Dense beds of the ophiuroid Ophiacantha abyssicola on the continental slope off Nova Scotia, Canada. Deep-Sea Research I, 51, 1307 - 1317. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2004.06.001

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Sars, G. O. (1872) Nye Echinodermer fra den norske kyst. Videnskabelige Selskabets Forhandlinger, 1871, 1 - 31.