Bathycrinus gracilis Thomson 1872 ...

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Crinoidea; Bourgueticrinida; Bathycrinidae; Bathycrinus; Bathycrinus gracilis; Andreas; Ricardo; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583037; https://zenodo.org/record/5583037

Bathycrinus gracilis Thomson, 1872a Reports for the Azores: Bathycrinus gracilis Thomson, 1872 a— $ Koehler 1909: 254–255; A.M. Clark 1977: 164–167, figs. 1a–f; A.M. Clark 1980: 206–207, fig. 5; Mironov et al . 2014: 115. Type locality: off West coast of France (47°38’N, 12°08’W). See: Carpenter (1884); A.M. Clark (1977). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from SW of Ireland to Cape Finisterre (NW Spain) and the Azores (A.M. Clark 1977, 1980). Depth: 2,880 –5,275 m (Mironov et al . 2014); AZO: 5,005 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft bottoms, on Globigerina ooze (Koehler 1909). Remarks: Bathycrinus gracilis is known from relatively few specimens, none of which was recovered complete, including the immature type material (presumably lost; Carpenter 1884; Koehler 1909; A.M. Clark 1977, 1980). Moreover, the only known record from Azorean waters is based on a single animal collected by Princesse Alice (sta 749: 38°54’00”N, 21°06’45”W, 5,005 m), only slightly larger than the type material (A.M. Clark 1977). ... : Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...