Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839

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 : 52-53

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Reports for the Azores:

Ophioglypha albida ( Forbes, 1839) View in CoL — $ Lyman 1869: 319; $ Ljungman 1872: 620; $ Barrois 1888: 72, 133; Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 View in CoL — $ H.L. Clark 1915: 318; Mortensen 1927a: 239–240, figs. 128.5–6; Nobre 1938: 91; Tortonese 1965: 272–274, figs. 99B, 125; Moyse & Tyler 1995: 673, fig. 12.6; Pereira 1997: 332–333; Micael & Costa 2010: 322; Micael et al. 2012: 3.

Type locality: Irish waters. See: Forbes (1839: 125–126, pl. 4, figs. 5–6); Mortensen (1927a); Paterson (1985: 118, Table 3).

Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic; from Iceland to Portugal, including the Azores ( Tortonese 1965).

Depth: 2– 1,030 m ( Tyler et al. 2005, Koukouras et al. 2007); AZO: 20–458 m ( Ljungman 1872, Barrois 1888).

Habitat: gravel, muddy sand or on silty areas between rocks ( Tyler et al. 2005, Koukouras et al. 2007).

Larval stage: planktotrophic ( Mortensen 1927a).

Remarks: historically, O. albida is known in the Azores by relatively few records. It was first collected by Josephine expedition in Ponta Delgada (S„o Miguel Island) at 274–458 m depth. This material was examined by Lyman (1869), Ljungman (1872) and later by H.L. Clark (1915). Barrois (1888) also reported this species in the same area, but at much shallower depths, about 20 to 25 m. The scarcity of records could be explained by the species preferred habitat in the archipelago. This ophiuroid appears to live mainly on soft bottoms at depths between 20 and 458 m. Soft-bottom environments were extensively sampled by oceanographic cruises in the archipelago, but rarely at depths shallower than 500 m.

References

Barrois, T. (1888) Liste des Echinodermes recueillis aux Acores durant les mois d'Ao r t et September 1887. Revue Biologique du Nord de la France, 1, 31 - 33 + 69 - 75 + 109 - 115.

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

Forbes, E. (1839) On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, 8, 114 - 128

Koukouras, A., Sinis, A. I., Bobori, D., Kazantzidis, S. & Kitsos, M. - S. (2007) The echinoderm (Deuterostomia) fauna of the Aegean Sea, and comparison with those of the neighbouring seas. Journal of Biological Research, 7, 67 - 92.

Ljungman, A. V. (1872) F ˆ rteckning ˆ fver uti Vestindien af Dr A. Goes samt under korvetten Josefinas expedition i Atlantiska Oceanen samlade Ophiurider. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens F ˆ rhandlingar, 28 (5), 615 - 658. [1871]

Lyman, T. (1869) Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 1 (10), 309 - 354.

Micael, J. & Costa A. C. (2010) Echinodermata. In: Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Oeiras, pp. 321 - 323.

Micael, J., Alves, M. J., Jones, M. B. & Costa, A. C. (2012) Diversity of shallow-water asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Azorean Archipelago. Marine Biodiversity Records, 5, e 49. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267211000534

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

Moyse, J. & Tyler, P. A. (1995) Sea urchins, starfish and sea cucumbers (Phylum Echinodermata). In: Hayward, P. J. & Ryland, J. S. (Eds.), Handbook of the marine fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 662 - 686.

Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.

Paterson, G. L. J. (1985) The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 49 (1), 1 - 162.

Pereira, M. (1997) Checklist of the littoral echinoderms of the Azores. Acoreana, 8 (3), 331 - 337.

Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.

Tyler, P. A., Emson, R. H., Sumida, P. & Howell, K. (2005) Ophiuroid distribution at sublittoral and bathyal depths round the Faroe Islands, NE Atlantic Ocean. BIOFAR Proceedings, 2005, 175 - 194.