Leptosynapta inhaerens
Description
Leptosynapta inhaerens (Müller, 1776) Reports for the Azores:
Leptosynapta inhaerens (M̹ller, 1776)— $ Wirtz 2009: 48, fig. 1e.
Type locality: Norway.
See: Tortonese (1965: 104–105, fig. 45); Picton (1993: 82–83).
Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic; from Scandinavian arctic waters south along European coasts (Tortonese 1965) to the Azores (Wirtz 2009) and Canaries (Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1992a).
Depth: 0–173 m, mostly between the first few meters and 50 m deep (Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1992a); also found in tide-pools (AZO; Wirtz 2009).
Habitat: soft sediments buried in muddy sand or gravel, and amongst Zostera and Caulerpa and in sandy tide pools (Picton 1993, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1992a).
Larval stage: Planktotrophic, hermaphroditic (Mortensen 1927 a, McEdward & Miner 2001).
Remarks: recently, Wirtz (2009) discovered small specimens belonging to Leptosynapta inhaerens in tidepools in Faial Island, turning the archipelago to the westernmost limit for this species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaptidae
- Genus
- Leptosynapta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Apodida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller
- Species
- inhaerens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptosynapta inhaerens (Muller, 1776) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Wirtz, P. (2009) Ten new records of marine invertebrates from the Azores. Arquipelago, Life and Marine Sciences, 26, 45 - 49.
- Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.
- Picton, B. (1993) A field guide to the shallow-water echinoderms of the British Isles. IMMEL Publishing Lda, London, 96 pp.
- Perez-Ruzafa, A., Marcos, C. & Bacallado, J. J. (1992 a) Holoturias (Echinodermata: Holothlroidea) de las Islas Canarias: II. Ordenes Dendrochirotida, Elasipodida, Apodida y Molpadida. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, 3 - 4, 163 - 185.
- 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
- Laguarda-Figueras, A., Solis-Marin, F. A., Duran-Gonzalez, A. Hernandez-Pliego, P. & Del Valle-Garcia, R. (2001) Holoturoideos (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the Mexican Caribbean: Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Avicennia, 14, 7 - 46.