Ophiothrix cotteaui ( de Loriol, 1900 )

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 : 166

Erroneous— Ophiothrix cotteaui ( de Loriol, 1900)

Reports for the Azores:

Ophiothrix cotteaui ( de Loriol, 1900) — Madsen 1970: 215–216, figs. 36a–b.

Type locality: Liberia .

See: Madsen (1970).

Occurrence: East Atlantic, from Portugal and the Gulf of Cadiz to Angola ( Koehler 1906b, 1914b, Cadenat 1938, Marques 1980), including Madeira ( Koehler 1906b).

Depth: c. 0–820 m ( Madsen 1970, Marques 1980).

Habitat: soft sediments, on the branches of gorgonian corals ( Cadenat 1938, Madsen 1970).

Remarks: Koehler (1906a, b) described a new species, Ophiothrix indigna , based on material collected by Talisman from the Gulf of Cadiz (sta 36, 1882: 35°35’00”N, 6°21’46”W, c. 150 m) and Madeira waters (sta 55, 1882: 32°41’20”N, 16°37’46”W, 370 m). In a review of the West African ophiuroids, Madsen (1970) concluded that O. indigna should be considered a junior synonymy of O. cotteaui as it merely represented adults of the later. However, by a lapse Madsen placed O. indigna ’s type locality in the Azores.