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Ophiomyxa pentagona

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Erroneous— Ophiomyxa pentagona (Lamarck, 1816) Reports for the Azores:

Ophiomyxa pentagona (Lamarck, 1816) — Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 396; Marques 1980: 103.

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea.

See: Tortonese (1965: 217–218, fig. 101).

Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, from Northern Spain to Senegal, including the Canaries and Cape Verde (Koehler 1906, Tortonese 1965, Madsen 1970).

Depth: 35– 1,095 m in the Atlantic, but common in littoral-sublittoral Mediterranean waters (Tortonese 1965, Madsen 1970, Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972).

Habitat: hard to soft substrata, including Posidonia and Caulerpa meadows (Tortonese 1965).

Remarks: Cherbonnier & Sibuet (1972) and Marques (1980) listed this species for the archipelago of the Azores. Though it is not entire unlikely that this species occurs in Azorean waters considering its wide distribution throughout the Northeast Atlantic, we could not trace the original report. We believe that Cherbonnier & Sibuet (1972) inclusion of the Azores in the distribution of this species was due to a mistake.

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 page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D21204F3FF77FF33F9D4724A10E0

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD71AA6A0450FFD3FFA4FFCD76121037 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/4148D21204F3FF77FF33F9D4724A10E0 (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/26164/taxon/4148D21204F3FF77FF33F9D4724A10E0.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ophiomyxidae
Genus
Ophiomyxa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ophiurida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Lamarck
Species
pentagona
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ophiomyxa pentagona (Lamarck, 1816) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019

References

  • Lamarck, J. - B. (1816) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. Tome Second. Verdiere, Paris, 568 pp.
  • 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.
  • Marques, V. M. (1980) Echinodermes recueillis pedant la mission " Hesperides 76 " du N / O Jean Charcot. Arquivo do Museu Bocage, 2 ª Serie, 7 (7), 95 - 107.
  • Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.
  • 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.
  • Madsen, F. J. (1970) West African Ophiuroids. Atlantidae Report, 11, 151 - 243.