Deep-Sea asteroids (Echinodermata; Asteroidea) from the Galician Bank (North Atlantic Ocean)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: García-Guillén, Laura M, Macías-Ramírez, Aurora, Ríos, Pilar, Manjón-Cabeza, María Eugenia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Magnolia Press 2023
• Subjects: Asteroidea; Echinodermata; Echinoderms; LIFE+INDEMARES; Seamount; Cabeza; Perrier; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/337479; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5297.2.3; https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85164495827

The Galician Bank (GB) is a seamount located 180 km away from the Galician coast (Northwest Spain), in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. The summit occurs at a depth between 650 and 1500 m with the maximum depth reaching 4000 m (the abyssal bottom). The water masses, twists, eddies, and geomorphology fa...