Benthodytes gosarsi Gebruk, 2008

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 : 142

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1690E30-EC81-46D3-881D-97648DDC7745

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D212-04DD-FF5E-FF33-FCED72B5157B

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scientific name

Benthodytes gosarsi Gebruk, 2008
status

 

Benthodytes gosarsi Gebruk, 2008 View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Benthodytes gosarsi $ Gebruk, 2008: 49–52 View in CoL , figs. 1A, 2–3; Rogacheva et al. 2013: 598–599, fig. 17E; Gebruk et al. 2014: 160.

Type locality: Mid Atlantic Ridge , Azores (42°55’N, 30°20’W) GoogleMaps .

See: Gebruk (2008); Rogacheva et al. (2012: 217, figs. J–L; 2013: 598–599, fig. 17E).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland south to the Azores ( Gebruk 2008, Rogacheva et al. 2013).

Depth: 2,238–3,680 m ( Rogacheva et al. 2013); AZO : 2,954–2,968 m ( Gebruk 2008).

Habitat: occasional swimmer (benthopelagic), on soft substrates ( Gebruk 2008, Rogacheva et al. 2012).

Remarks: Gebruk (2008) described Benthodytes gosarsi , based on specimens collected by G.O. Sars (MAR– ECO expedition) in the northern-most waters of the Azorean EEZ. More recently, Rogacheva et al. (2012) observed in vivo animals belonging to this species swimming above the sea-floor in the area of the Charles-Gibbs Fracture Zone, north of the Azores. These authors inferred that B. gosarsi is deposit-feeder that rarely swims and does so usually as a response to local disturbances or to travel to a different location on the sea floor.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Holothuroidea

Order

Elasipodida

Family

Psychropotidae

Genus

Benthodytes

Loc

Benthodytes gosarsi Gebruk, 2008

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P. 2019
2019
Loc

Benthodytes gosarsi $ Gebruk, 2008: 49–52

Gebruk, A. V. & Smirnov, A. V. & Rogacheva, A. V. 2014: 160
2014
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