Gracilechinus elegans
Description
Erroneous— Gracilechinus elegans (Düben & Koren, 1846) Reports for the Azores:
Echinus elegans (D̹ben & Koren, 1846)— Mortensen 1927a: 303–304, fig. 139, 1943a: 61–65, fig. 19, pl. 12, figs. 1–8, pl. 13, fig. 1, pl. 14, figs. 1–6; Nobre 1938: 116–117; Gage et al. 1985: 185; Mironov 2006: 110; Micael & Costa 2010: 323; Micael et al. 2012: 4.
Type locality: Bergen, Norway.
See: D̹ben & Koren (1844: 272–274, pl. 10, figs. 40–42, as Echinus elegans); Mortensen (1943a); Mironov (2006).
Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic (Mecho et al. 2014); from Iceland and Scandinavia as far south as Cape Spartel, in the North African coast (Mortensen 1903, 1927a, b); also reported from the Antialtair Seamount (Mironov 2006).
Depth: 50– 1,710 m (Mironov 2006).
Habitat: soft sediment; bioeroder (deep-water corals; Stevenson & Rocha 2012).
Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995).
Remarks: Mortensen (1927a) listed the Azores under the geographical range of this species. However, to our knowledge no material belonging to Gracilechinus elegans was ever recorded from the Azores. Mortensen report seems to be a result of a mistake, which was repeated in later bibliography.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echinidae
- Genus
- Gracilechinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Duben & Koren
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gracilechinus elegans (Duben, 1846) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- D ʾ ben, M. W. & Koren, J. (1846) Ofversigt af Skandinaviens Echinodermer. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 1844, 229 - 328.
- 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
- Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.
- Gage, J. D., Billett, D. S. M., Jensen, M. & Tyler, P. A. (1985) Echinoderms of the Rockall Trough and adjacent areas. 2. Echinoidea and Holothurioidea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 48 (4), 173 - 214.
- Mironov, A. N. (2006) Echinoids from seamounts of the north-eastern Atlantic, onshore / offshore gradients in species distribution. In: Mironov, A. N., Gebruk, A. V. & Southward, A. J. (Eds.), Biogeography of the North Atlantic Seamounts. KMK Scientific Press, Russian Academy of Sciences, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, pp. 96 - 133.
- 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
- Mortensen, T. (1943 a) A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III. 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 446 pp.
- Mecho, A., Billett, D. S. M., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Aguzzi, J., Tyler, P. A. & Company, J. B. (2014) First records, rediscovery and compilation of deep-sea echinoderms in the middle and lower continental slope of the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina, 78 (2), 281 - 302. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 03983.30 C
- Mortensen, T. (1903) Echinoidea (Part 1). In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition 1895 - 1896. 4 (1). Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, 4 (1), pp. 1 - 198.
- Stevenson, A. & Rocha, C. (2012) Evidence for the bioerosion of deep-water corals by echinoids in the Northeast Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I, Oceanographic Research Papers, 71, 73 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2012.09.005
- Emlet, R. B. (1995) Developmental mode and species geographic range in regular sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Evolution, 49 (3), 476 - 489. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1558 - 5646.1995. tb 02280. x