Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1899 — $ Gebruk 2008: 50, 51.
Type locality: off Cape Blanc, NW Africa.
See: Perrier (1902: 365–371); Rogacheva et al. (2013: 591, figs. 17B, 19B).
Occurrence: East Atlantic, from Greenland eastwards from the Rockall Trough (Gage et al. 1985) south to Angola (Jones et al. 2014), including the Azores (Gebruk 2008).
Depth: 782– 3,757 m (Rogacheva et al. 2013); AZO: 2,954 –2,968 m (Gebruk 2008).
Habitat: soft sediment, from mud to sand (with shells and corals; Perrier 1902); may be able to swim (Rogacheva et al. 2013).
Remarks: Recently, Gebruk (2008) identified the species B. funebris among material collected at the north border of the Azorean EEZ (G.O. Sars, MAR–ECO cruise, sta 40/367: 42°55’N, 30°20’W, 2,954 –2,968 m).