Ophiopleura inermis
Description
Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman, 1878) Reports for the Azores:
Ophiura aurantiaca (Verrill, 1882) — $ Koehler 1921a: 5;
Ophiopleura aurantiaca (Verrill, 1882) — Mortensen 1927a: 251–252, fig. 137, 1933a: 92–94, fig. 50;
Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman, 1878) — Gage et al. 1983: 295; Paterson 1985: 128, fig. 48; Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 82–83, fig. 3B.
Type locality: Off Tristan da Cunha Island.
See: Lyman (1878: 95–96, pl. 5, figs. 123–125, as Ophioglypha inermis); Paterson (1985).
Occurrence: Atlantic species, known from Greenland and Iceland south to off Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts) in the west and to the Bay of Biscay (Paterson 1985), the Azores (Koehler 1921a), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998) and Canaries (Koehler 1909) in the east; also found in the south of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (Martynov & Litvinova 2008) and off Tristan da Cunha (Lyman 1878).
Depth: 150– 1,875 m (Gage et al. 1983, Paterson 1985); AZO: 1,740 m (Koehler 1921a).
Habitat: hard to soft sediments (Koehler 1909, Jesus & Fonseca 1999).
Remarks: Koehler (1921a) reported the only specimen of Ophiopleura aurantiaca (as Ophiura aurantiaca) known from the Azores waters (Hirondelle II, sta 3150: 38°01’N, 25°21’W, 1,740 m), a species later found to be conspecific with Ophiopleura inermis (Mortensen 1933a; Gage et al. 1983).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiuridae
- Genus
- Ophiopleura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lyman
- Species
- inermis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman, 1878) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Lyman, T. (1878) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the " Challenger " expedition. Part I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 5 (7), 65 - 168.
- Verrill, A. E. (1882) Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England, No. 4. American Journal of Science, 3 (23), 216 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.2475 / ajs. s 3 - 23.135.216
- Koehler, R. (1921 a) Echinodermes (Asteries, Ophiures, Echinides et Crinoides) des dernieres campagnes de la Princesse-Alice et de l' Hirondelle II. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique de Monaco, 396, 1 - 8.
- 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
- Gage, J. D., Billett, D. S. M., Jensen, M. & Tyler, P. A. (1983) Echinoderms of the Rockall Trough and adjacent areas. I. Crinoidea, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 45, 263 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28002
- Paterson, G. L. J. (1985) The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 49 (1), 1 - 162.
- Martynov, A. V. & Litvinova, N. M. (2008) Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research, 4, 76 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000701840066
- Jesus, D. & Abreu, A. D. (1998) Contribution to the knowledge of the soft bottom echinoderms of Madeira Island. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal (Historia Natural), 50 (286), 59 - 69., 4 figs.
- 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.
- Jesus, D. C. & Fonseca, L. C. (1999) First records of 13 echinoderm species on the southwest coast of Portugal. Boletin Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, 15 (1 - 4), 343 - 349.
- Mortensen, T. (1933 a) Ophiuroidea. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, 4 b (8), 1 - 121.