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Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869

Description

Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz, 1869 Reports for the Azores:

Hemipedina cubensis (Agassiz, 1869) — $ Koehler 1909: 221–226, pl. 1, fig. 1, pl. 30, figs. 8–17, pl. 31, fig. 21;

Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869 — Mortensen 1927a: 277, 1940a: 96–99, pl. 2, figs. 19–20, pl. 66, figs. 1–9; Serafy & Fell 1985: 20, fig. 11; García-Diez et al. 2005: 50.

Type locality: off Havana, Cuba.

See: Koehler (1909); Mortensen (1940a).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the West, in USA coast from northern Nova Scotia to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico (Downey 1968, Serafy & Fell 1985); in the East recorded from the Azores and Canaries (Koehler 1909).

Depth: 250– 1,187 m (Koehler 1909, Serafy & Fell 1985); AZO: 1,187 m (Koehler 1909).

Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909); feeds on bottom detritus (Serafy & Fell 1985).

Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995).

Remarks: Caenopedina cubensis is known from the Azores by two specimens reported by Koehler (1909) on the material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1311: 37°37’00”N, 25°20’45”W, 1,187 m).

Notes

Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161

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References

  • Agassiz, A. (1869) Preliminary report on the echini and star-fishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales, Assist. U. S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 1 (9), 253 - 308.
  • 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
  • Mortensen, T. (1940 a) A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III. 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 370 pp.
  • Serafy, D. K. & Fell, F. J. (1985) Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Echinodermata: Echinoidea. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 33, 1 - 27.
  • 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.
  • Downey, M. E. (1968) Catalog of Recent Echinoid Type Specimens in the U. S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., vi + 99 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.264
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