Ophiactis virens ...

• 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; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiactidae; Ophiactis; Ophiactis virens; Andreas; Ricardo; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583066; https://zenodo.org/record/5583066

Ophiactis virens (Sars, 1859) Reports from the Azores: Ophiactis sp.—? $ Simroth 1888: 231; Ophiactis virens (Sars, 1859) — Koehler 1924: 194–197; Mortensen 1927a: 199; Tortonese 1965: 238–239, fig. 110; Marques 1980: 102; $ Castro & Viegas 1983: 24; $ Marques 1983: 3; Pereira 1997: 332; Jesus & Abreu 1998: 65; Micael & Costa 2010: 322; Micael et al. 2012: 3. Type locality: Mediterranean Sea. See: Tortonese (1965). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea; along the Western African coast to? Cape Verde (Koehler 1924, Tortonese 1965) including the archipelagos of the Azores (Marques 1983), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998) and Canaries (Bacallado et al . 1985). Depth: 0–90 m (Tortonese 1965); a littoral species in the Azores (Marques 1983). Habitat: rocky shores, coralligenous concretions, under stones and among algae and bryozoans; can form large aggregations (Tortonese 1965). Larval stage: unknown; also reproduces asexually through fission (Tortonese 1965). Remarks: Koehler (1924) ... : 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 pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...