Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948

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 : 58

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Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948 View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Pythonaster atlantidis $ A.H. Clark 1948: 76–77 View in CoL ; $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 339; $ Mah et al. 2012: 60–61, figs. 3A–D; Dilman 2014: 37.

Type locality: Azores (35°37’N, 30°51’W) GoogleMaps .

See: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992); Mah et al. (2012).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Hudson Canyon (38°25’N, 70°52’W; Mah et al. 2012) east to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (SW Ireland; Howell et al. 2002) and southern Azorean waters (A.H. Clark 1948).

Depth: 2,976–4,877 m ( Mah et al. 2012); AZO: 3,200 m (A.H. Clark 1948) .

Larval stage: possibly direct development (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

Remarks: currently, P. atlantidis is known from the Azores only from the type specimen collected by Atlantis , at the border between the Azorean and Meteor Seamount.

References

Clark, A. H. (1948) Some interesting starfishes and brittle stars dredged by the Atlantis in mid-Atlantic. Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, 38, 75 - 78.

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

Howell, K. L., Billett, D. S. M. & Tyler, P. A. (2002) Depth-related distribution and abundance of seastars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Porcupine Seabight and Porcupine Abyssal Plain, N. E. Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I, 49, 1901 - 1920. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0967 - 0637 (02) 00090 - 0

Mah, C. L. & Blake, D. B. (2012) Global Diversity and Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata). PLoS One, 7 (4), e 35644, 1 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0035644