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Material examined. Captain Arutyunov MV, MSM01-03, stn 195, 1 ind. (DBUA 001063.01).
Ecology and distribution. This is a bathyal North Atlantic species (822–1700 m) known from SW Ireland south to the Canary Islands (Paterson 1985). In the Gulf of Cadiz it was collected from a coral thicket (Dendrophylia cf. alternata, mostly dead branches with a few living polyps) at a single station at the flanks of Captain Arutyunov MV (1390 m) together with Ophiopristis gadensis sp. nov., Ophiactis abyssicola and Amphioplus hexabrachiatus.