Ophioconis forbesi
Description
Ophioconis forbesi (Heller, 1863) Reports for the Azores:
Ophioconis forbesi L̹tken, 1869 — $ Koehler 1896a: 213, 1898: 58;
Ophioconis forbesi (Heller, 1863) — $ Koehler 1909: 141; Koehler 1921b: 89–90, fig. 59; Mortensen 1927a: 227; Tortonese 1965: 262–263, fig. 120; Pereira 1997: 332; García-Diez et al. 2005: 50; Micael & Costa 2010: 322; Micael et al. 2012: 3.
Type locality: Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea).
See: Heller (1863: 422–424, pl. 2, figs. 5–8) Koehler (1921b); Tortonese (1965).
Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic, from the Bay of Biscay to Moroccan coasts (Tortonese 1965), including the archipelagos of the Azores (Koehler 1909) and Canaries (Hernández et al. 2013), and the seamounts of Josephine, Seine and Gettysburg (Koehler 1909).
Depth: 20–230 m (Koehler 1921b, Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972); AZO: 98–130 m (Koehler 1898, 1909).
Habitat: sand, gravel and shells to rock; also among coralligenous algae; found in association with Ophiura albida Forbes, 1939 (Koehler 1921b).
Remarks: Koehler (1896a, 1898, 1909) identified the only two specimens of Ophioconis forbesi known from the Azores, collected by Hirondelle (sta 226: 38°31’19”N, 28°34’31”W, 130 m) and Princesse Alice (sta 882: 38°03’40”N, 28°34’45”W, 98 m).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiodermatidae
- Genus
- Ophioconis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Heller
- Species
- forbesi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophioconis forbesi (Heller, 1863) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Heller, C. (1863) Untersuchungen ʾ ber die Litoralfauna des adriatischen Meeres. Sitzungsberichte der mathematischnaturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 46, 415 - 448.
- L ʾ tken, C. F. (1869) Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Tredie Afdelning. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Femte Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdelning, 8, 20 - 109.
- Koehler, R. (1896 a) Note preliminaire sur les Ophiures recueillies pendant les campagnes de " L'Hirondelle ". Memoires. Societe Zoologique de France, 9, 203 - 213.
- Koehler, R. (1898) Echinides et Ophiures provenant des campagnes du yacht Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Acores, Terre- Neuve). Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, 12, 1 - 78.
- 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.
- Koehler, R. (1921 b) Echinodermes. Faune de France. 1. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences, Paris, 216 pp.
- 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
- Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.
- Pereira, M. (1997) Checklist of the littoral echinoderms of the Azores. Acoreana, 8 (3), 331 - 337.
- 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.
- Micael, J. & Costa A. C. (2010) Echinodermata. In: Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Oeiras, pp. 321 - 323.
- Micael, J., Alves, M. J., Jones, M. B. & Costa, A. C. (2012) Diversity of shallow-water asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Azorean Archipelago. Marine Biodiversity Records, 5, e 49. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267211000534
- Hernandez, J. C., Clemente S., Tuya F., Perez-Ruzafa, A., Sangil, C., Moro-Abad, L. & Bacallado-Aranega, J. J (2013) Echinoderms of the Canary Islands, Spain. In: Alvarado J. J. & Solis-Marin F. A. (Eds.), Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 471 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 642 - 20051 - 9 _ 15
- Cherbonnier, G. & Sibuet, M. (1972) Resultats scientifiques de la campagne Noratlante: Asterides et Ophiurides. Bulletin du Museum National D'histoire Naturelle, 102 (76), 1333 - 1394.