Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill 1885
Description
Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill, 1885a Reports for the Azores:
Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill, 1885 a— $ Koehler 1909: 185–186, pl. 26, figs. 9–11; Farran 1913: 42–43, figs. 9c, 14; Mortensen 1927a: 192–193, fig. 106; Grieg 1932: 38; $ Paterson 1985: 40–41, fig. 17; García-Diez et al. 2005: 49; $ St̂hr & Segonzac 2005: 386; Smirnov et al. 2014: 194;
Ophiacantha decipiens $ Koehler, 1906a: 22–23, pl. 2, figs. 26–27, 1906b: 283–284, pl. 20, figs. 31–32; Mortensen 1927a: 188; Nobre 1938: 73.
Type locality: off Cape Hatteras, USA.
See: Verrill (1885a: 152–153); Paterson (1985).
Occurrence: North Atlantic; it is known from west of Cape Hatteras and off Virginia in the West Atlantic and from the British waters to south of the Azores in the East Atlantic (Paterson 1985).
Depth: 970– 3,120 m (Smirnov et al. 2014); AZO: 1,095 –2,200 m (Koehler 1909, St̂hr & Segonzac 2005).
Habitat: soft sediments, sand to mud (Koehler 1909; Grieg 1932).
Remarks: Koehler (1906a, b) described Ophiacantha decipiens from a specimen collected by Talisman in the Azores (sta 127, 1883: 38°38’N, 28°20’46”W, 1,257 m). Koehler (1906a) believed that this species was a close ally of O. smitti Ljungman, 1872, a species reported from the archipelago by St̂hr & Segonzac (2005). Koehler (1909) also reported O. crassidens from the Azores, based on material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 703: 39°21’20”N, 31°05’45”W, 1,360 m; sta 1344: 38°45’30”N, 28°07’45”W, 1,095 m). Later, Paterson (1985) compared the type material of O. decipiens with specimens belonging to O. crassidens and found them to be conspecific. More recently, St̂hr & Segonzac (2005) reported an animal belonging to this species from Mount Saldanha, in the southwesternmost waters of the Azores (SEAHMA–1, sta PL 181–3: 36°33’38”N, 33°24’49”W, 2,200 m).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiacanthidae
- Genus
- Ophiacantha
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Verrill
- Species
- crassidens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill, 1885 sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Verrill, A. E. (1885 a) Notice of the remarkable Marine Fauna occupying the outer banks off the Southern Coast of New England. The American Journal of Science, Series 3, 29, 149 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.2475 / ajs. s 3 - 29.170.149
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- St ˆ hr, S. & Segonzac, M. (2005) Deep-sea ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from reducing and non-reducing environments in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85 (2), 383 - 402. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315405011318 h
- 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
- Koehler, R. (1906 a) Description des ophiures nouvelles recueillies par le Travailleur et le Talisman. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 19, 5 - 34.
- Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.
- Ljungman, A. V. (1872) F ˆ rteckning ˆ fver uti Vestindien af Dr A. Goes samt under korvetten Josefinas expedition i Atlantiska Oceanen samlade Ophiurider. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens F ˆ rhandlingar, 28 (5), 615 - 658. [1871]