Ophiothrix luetkeni Thomson 1873 ...

• 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; Ophiotrichidae; Ophiothrix; Ophiothrix luetkeni; Andreas; Josephine; Ricardo; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583079; https://zenodo.org/record/5583079

Ophiothrix luetkeni Thomson, 1873 Reports for the Azores: Ophiothrix luetkeni Thomson, 1873 —? $ Lyman 1879: 54, 1882: 218, 286; Bell 1892: 133; $ Koehler 1909: 201–202, pl. 29, figs. 8–10; Koehler 1924: 254–257; Mortensen 1927a: 176–177, fig. 99; Pereira 1997: 332; García-Diez et al . 2005: 48; Micael & Costa 2010: 322; Micael et al . 2012: 3. Type locality: SW Ireland. See: Thomson (1873: 100); Koehler (1921b: 71–72, fig. 46); Mortensen (1927a). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic from the British Islands to Cape Verde (Mortensen 1927a), including the Azores Archipelago and Josephine Seamount (Koehler 1909). Depth: 130–838 (?932) m (Thomson 1873, Koehler 1909); AZO:?54–165 (?823) m (Lyman 1882, Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft bottom (rarely on hard substrates), sand, gravel and shelly substrates (Koehler 1909, 1921b). Remarks: the first report of O. luetkeni in the Azores was by Lyman (1879), though he remarked that the specimen was too young and left the identification tentative. The depth of 823 m (H.M.S. ... : 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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...