Ophiacantha mesembria H. L. Clark 1915 ...

• 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; Ophiacanthidae; Ophiacantha; Ophiacantha mesembria; Andreas; Benavides; Pacific; Ricardo; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583101; https://zenodo.org/record/5583101

Ophiacantha mesembria H.L. Clark, 1915 Reports for the Azores: Ophiacantha pentagona armata $ Koehler, 1898: 55–56; Ophiacantha mesembria H.L. Clark, 1915 — Koehler 1922: 60–61; Mortensen 1927a: 188. Type locality: off Santa Cruz (Virgin Islands, Caribbean). See: H.L. Clark (1915: 201–202); Benavides-Serrato et al . (2011: 248–249). Occurrence: Northwest Atlantic, known from the Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico (Benavides-Serrato et al . 2011) eastwards to the Azores (Koehler 1922) and?Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998). Depth: 256– 2,870 m (H.L. Clark 1915, Koeheler 1898); AZO: 2,870 m (Koeheler 1898). Habitat: soft sediments (clayish sand; Koehler 1898). Remarks: Koehler (1898) examined two specimens collected by Hirondelle in Azorean waters, which he placed in a variety armata of O. pentagona , a species described from the Pacific Ocean. Later, Koehler (1922) changed his previous identification of the Hirondelle material, and placed them under the Caribbean O. mesembria , extending its geographical ... : 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 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...