Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars 1872
Description
Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 Reports for the Azores:
Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 — $ Koehler 1909: 182; Farran 1913: 38–39, fig. 9d; Mortensen 1927a: 194, figs. 105.5–6; Grieg 1932: 37; García-Diez et al. 2005: 49.
Type locality: Norway.
See: Sars (1872: 8–10); Paterson (1985: 47–48, fig. 20).
Occurrence: North Atlantic, Northeast American coast, north of Cape Hatteras to Greenland and Iceland, eastwards to Scandinavia, southwards to the Western Sahara (Paterson (1985), including the Azores (Koehler 1909), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu (1998), Canaries (Madsen 1970), and the Atlantis Seamount (A.H. Clark 1949).
Depth: 35– 3,500 m (Mortensen (1927a), an upper bathyal species that may occur in shallow waters at higher latitudes, such as the Norwegian Sea (Gage et al. 1983); AZO: 880 m (Koehler 1909).
Habitat: rock, coral, mud to gravel and detritic substrates (Farran 1913; Cherbonnier 1969, 1970); it can form dense beds (Metaxas & Giffin 2004).
Remarks: the record of Ophiacantha abyssicola in the Azores is based on a single small specimen collected by Princesse Alice (sta 837: 37°55’N, 25°24’15”W, 880 m) and identified by Koehler (1909).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiacanthidae
- Genus
- Ophiacantha
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sars
- Species
- abyssicola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Sars, G. O. (1872) Nye Echinodermer fra den norske kyst. Videnskabelige Selskabets Forhandlinger, 1871, 1 - 31.
- Koehler, R. (1909) Echinodermes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse-Alice (Asteries, Ophiures, Echinides et Crinoides). Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, 34, 1 - 317.
- Farran, G. P. (1913) The deep-water Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea of the West Coast of Ireland. Department of Agriculture and technical instruction for Ireland, fisheries branch, scientific investigations, 6, 1 - 66. [1912]
- 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
- Grieg, J. A. (1932) Echinodermata. Report of the scientific results of the Michael Sars North Atlantic deep sea expedition 1910, 3 (2), 1 - 47.
- Garcia-Diez, C., Porteiro, F. M., Meirinho, A., Cardigos, F. & Tempera, F. (2005) Taxonomic review of selected invertebrate groups collected during the Campaigns of the Prince Albert I of Monaco in the Azorean waters. Arquipelago. Life and Marine Sciences, 22 A, 35 - 59.
- 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.
- Jesus, D. & Abreu, A. D. (1998) Contribution to the knowledge of the soft bottom echinoderms of Madeira Island. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal (Historia Natural), 50 (286), 59 - 69., 4 figs.
- Madsen, F. J. (1970) West African Ophiuroids. Atlantidae Report, 11, 151 - 243.
- Clark, A. H. (1949) Echinoderms from the mid-Atlantic dredged by lhe Atlantis in the summer of 1948. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 39, 371 - 377.
- Gage, J. D., Billett, D. S. M., Jensen, M. & Tyler, P. A. (1983) Echinoderms of the Rockall Trough and adjacent areas. I. Crinoidea, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 45, 263 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28002
- Cherbonnier, G. (1969) Echinodermes recoltes par la " Thalassa " au large de cotes d'espagne et du Golfe de Gascogne (3 - 12 AOUT 1967). Bulletin Museum National Histoire Naturelle Paris, Serie 2, 41 (1), 343 - 361.
- Cherbonnier, G. (1970) Echinodermes recoltes par la " Thalassa " au large de cotes d'espagne et du Golfe de Gascogne (18 - 25 AOUT 1968). Bulletin Museum National Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2 ª Serie, 41 (5), 1266 - 1277.
- Metaxas, A. & Giffin, B. (2004) Dense beds of the ophiuroid Ophiacantha abyssicola on the continental slope off Nova Scotia, Canada. Deep-Sea Research I, 51, 1307 - 1317. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2004.06.001