Amphiura chiajei Forbes 1843
Description
Erroneous— Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843 Reports for the Azores:
Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843 — Mortensen 1927a: 212–213, figs. 117, 120.1–2; Grieg 1932: 37; Nobre 1938: 84, fig. 41.1; Tortonese 1965: 224–227, figs. 105–106; Fenaux 1970: 262–271, figs. 1–5; Moyse & Tyler 1995: 67, fig. 12.7; Micael & Costa 2010: 322; Micael et al. 2012: 3.
Type locality: Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea.
See: Forbes (1843: 150, pl. 14, figs. 8–13); Madsen (1970: 167–168, figs. 4–5a); Paterson (1985: 87–88, fig. 34).
Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic, from Scandinavia to the southern coast of Angola (Mortensen 1927a, 1936, Tortonese 1965), including the Canaries (Bacallado et al. 1985) and Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998).
Depth: 2– 1,250 m (Cherbonnier 1970, Koukouras et al. 2007).
Habitat: soft sediments (sand, mud to silt) and among algae (Koukouras et al. 2007, Tortonese 1965); lives buried in the sediment with the arms extended above the surface feeding on deposited material (Picton 1993).
Larval stage: lecithotrophic (Fenaux 1970).
Remarks: both Mortensen (1927a) and Grieg (1932) have listed the Azores under the geographical range of Amphiura chiajei. However, to the best of our knowledge no specimen belonging to this species was ever recorded from the archipelago. In view of this, the inclusion of A. chiajei in the Azorean fauna by those authors appears to be a misprint and should be dismissed as erroneous.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Amphiuridae
- Genus
- Amphiura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forbes
- Species
- chiajei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843 sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Forbes, E. A. (1843) On the radiata of the eastern Mediterranean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19, 143 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1842. tb 00360. x
- 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
- Grieg, J. A. (1932) Echinodermata. Report of the scientific results of the Michael Sars North Atlantic deep sea expedition 1910, 3 (2), 1 - 47.
- Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.
- Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.
- Fenaux, L. (1970) Maturation of the gonads and seasonal cycle of the planktonic larvae of the ophiuroid Amphiura chiajei Forbes. The Biological Bulletin, 138, 262 - 271. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1540211
- Moyse, J. & Tyler, P. A. (1995) Sea urchins, starfish and sea cucumbers (Phylum Echinodermata). In: Hayward, P. J. & Ryland, J. S. (Eds.), Handbook of the marine fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 662 - 686.
- 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
- Madsen, F. J. (1970) West African Ophiuroids. Atlantidae Report, 11, 151 - 243.
- 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.
- Mortensen, T. (1936) Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports, 12, 199 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8051
- Bacallado, J. J., Moreno, E. & Perez-Ruzafa, A. (1985) Echinodermata (Canary Islands) provisional Check-list. In: Keegan, B. F. & O'Connor, B. D. S. (Eds.), Echinodermata; Proceedings of the 5 th International Echinoderm Conference, Galway, September 1984. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 149 - 151.
- 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.
- Cherbonnier, G. (1970) Echinodermes recoltes par la " Thalassa " au large de cotes d'espagne et du Golfe de Gascogne (18 - 25 AOUT 1968). Bulletin Museum National Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2 ª Serie, 41 (5), 1266 - 1277.
- Koukouras, A., Sinis, A. I., Bobori, D., Kazantzidis, S. & Kitsos, M. - S. (2007) The echinoderm (Deuterostomia) fauna of the Aegean Sea, and comparison with those of the neighbouring seas. Journal of Biological Research, 7, 67 - 92.
- Picton, B. (1993) A field guide to the shallow-water echinoderms of the British Isles. IMMEL Publishing Lda, London, 96 pp.