Ophiomyxa pentagona ( Lamarck, 1816 )

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 : 164

Erroneous— Ophiomyxa pentagona ( Lamarck, 1816)

Reports for the Azores:

Ophiomyxa pentagona ( Lamarck, 1816) — Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 396; Marques 1980: 103.

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea.

See: Tortonese (1965: 217–218, fig. 101).

Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, from Northern Spain to Senegal, including the Canaries and Cape Verde ( Koehler 1906, Tortonese 1965, Madsen 1970).

Depth: 35– 1,095 m in the Atlantic, but common in littoral-sublittoral Mediterranean waters ( Tortonese 1965, Madsen 1970, Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972).

Habitat: hard to soft substrata, including Posidonia and Caulerpa meadows ( Tortonese 1965).

Remarks: Cherbonnier & Sibuet (1972) and Marques (1980) listed this species for the archipelago of the Azores. Though it is not entire unlikely that this species occurs in Azorean waters considering its wide distribution throughout the Northeast Atlantic, we could not trace the original report. We believe that Cherbonnier & Sibuet (1972) inclusion of the Azores in the distribution of this species was due to a mistake.