Ophiotypa simplex Koehler 1897 ...

• 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; Ophiuridae; Ophiotypa; Ophiotypa simplex; Andreas; Indian; Pacific; Paterson; Reykjanes; Ricardo; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583067; https://zenodo.org/record/5583067

Ophiotypa simplex Koehler, 1897a Reports for the Azores: Ophiotypa simplex Koehler, 1897 a— $ Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972 t: 416; Paterson 1985: 144–145, fig. 55; Jesus & Fonseca 1999: 347, fig. 3; Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 81–82, fig. 2F; Smirnov et al . 2014: 204. Type locality: Gulf of Bengal, Indian Ocean. See: Koehler (1897a: 281–283, pl. 5, figs. 1–3); Paterson (1985); Martynov & Litvinova (2008). Occurrence: cosmopolitan, present in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian deep waters; from the Venezuelan Basin in the Caribbean (Paterson 1985) eastwards to the Azores (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972) and? Portugal (Jesus & Fonseca 1999), south to waters between Cape Verde and NW Africa (Koehler 1906b); also recorded from the Reykjanes Ridge (S of Iceland; Martynov & Litvinova (2008). Depth: (? 27 m) 1,670 –4,412 m (Jesus & Fonseca 1999, Paterson 1985, Martynov & Litvinova 2008); AZO: 3,665 m (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972). Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909). Remarks: ... : 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 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...