Persephonaster sphenoplax
Description
Persephonaster sphenoplax (Bell, 1892) Reports for the Azores:
Astropecten sphenoplax Bell, 1892 — $ Koehler 1909: 42, pl. 17, fig. 8; Mortensen 1927a: 59; Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 374;
Persephonaster humilis (Koehler, 1907a) — $ Koehler 1909: 61–62, pl. 19, figs. 2–4; Mortensen 1927a: 64;
Persephonaster sphenoplax (Bell, 1892) — $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 65–66, figs. 14e, f. h–j, I, 15i, j, pl. 20, figs. A–C; García-Diez et al. 2005: 46.
Type locality: NW of Ireland.
See: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992).
Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from the Rockall Trough (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992) to the northern part of the Bay of Biscay (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972) and in the Azores (Koehler 1909); possibly also in the SE of Florida (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).
Depth: (?675)820– 1,187 m (AZO: 845– 1,187 m; Koehler 1909, A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).
Habitat: soft to hard substrates (Koehler 1909).
Remarks: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992) remarked that Bell’s incomplete original descriptions might have led Koehler (1909) to fail to recognise Persephonaster sphenoplax in the Azorean material he used to erect Persephonaster humilis. The former authors compared material belonging to both species and concluded them to be conspecific, dismissing morphological differences as size-related.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Astropectinidae
- Genus
- Persephonaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Paxillosida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bell
- Species
- sphenoplax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Persephonaster sphenoplax (Bell, 1892) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Bell, F. J. (1892) Catalogue of the British echinoderms in the British Museum (Natural History). Trustees of the British Museum, London, xvii + 202 pp.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Koehler, R. (1907 a) Note preliminaire sur quelques Asteries et Ophiures provenant des campagnes de la Princesse Alice. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique de Monaco, 99, 1 - 47.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Natural History Museum Publications. Chapman & Hall, London, 794 pp.
- 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.