Ophioplinthus inornata ( Lyman, 1878 )

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 : 48-49

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scientific name	Ophioplinthus inornata ( Lyman, 1878 )
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Ophioplinthus inornata ( Lyman, 1878)

Reports for the Azores:

Ophioglypha inornata Lyman, 1878 — $ Koehler 1906b: 262–263;

Homalophiura inornata ( Lyman, 1878) View in CoL — Mortensen 1927a: 231;

Ophiura inornata ( Lyman, 1878) — $ A.H. Clark 1948: 78;

Ophiurolepis inornata ( Lyman, 1878) View in CoL — Paterson 1985: 138–139, fig. 53; Smirnov et al. 2014: 206.

Type locality: off S. Paulo Rocks (1°47’N, 24°26’W).

See: Lyman (1878: 97, pl. 2, figs. 26–27); Paterson (1985); Martynov & Litvinova (2008: 85–7, figs. 6G).

Occurrence: cosmopolitan, recorded in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic; in the Atlantic from South America, Falkland Islands, Caribbean, Saint Paul Rocks, eastwards to off Cape Blanc ( NW Africa), including the Azores ( Paterson 1985).

Depth: 242– 3,385 m ( Lyman 1878, Mortensen 1936); AZO: 2,995 –3,200 m ( Koehler 1906b, A.H. Clark 1948).

Habitat: soft sediments ( Globigerina ooze; Lyman 1878).

Larval stage: non-brooding, direct or lecithotrophic development ( Mortensen 1936).

Remarks: the presence of O. inornata in the Azores was first reported by Koehler (1906b; Talisman , sta 131, 1883: 38°28'N, 25°05'46"W, 2995 m). Later, A. H. Clark (1948) also identified material belonging to this species from the Azores, but referred to it as from west of Gibraltar ( Atlantis sta 15: 35°37'N, 30°51' W; 3,200 m).

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.

Koehler, R. (1906 b) Ophiures. Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman, 8, 245 - 311.

Lyman, T. (1878) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the Challenger expedition. Part I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 5 (7), 65 - 168.

Martynov, A. V. & Litvinova, N. M. (2008) Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research, 4, 76 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000701840066

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. (1936) Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports, 12, 199 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8051

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.

Smirnov, I. S., Piepenburg, D., Ahearn, C. & Juterzenka, K. V. (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. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology, 11 (1), 192 - 209. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / invertzool. 11.1.18