Ophiopleura inermis ...

• 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; Ophiopleura; Ophiopleura inermis; Andreas; Gage; Greenland; Paterson; Ricardo; Tristan; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583147; https://zenodo.org/record/5583147

Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman, 1878) Reports for the Azores: Ophiura aurantiaca (Verrill, 1882) — $ Koehler 1921a: 5; Ophiopleura aurantiaca (Verrill, 1882) — Mortensen 1927a: 251–252, fig. 137, 1933a: 92–94, fig. 50; Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman, 1878) — Gage et al . 1983: 295; Paterson 1985: 128, fig. 48; Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 82–83, fig. 3B. Type locality: Off Tristan da Cunha Island. See: Lyman (1878: 95–96, pl. 5, figs. 123–125, as Ophioglypha inermis ); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: Atlantic species, known from Greenland and Iceland south to off Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts) in the west and to the Bay of Biscay (Paterson 1985), the Azores (Koehler 1921a), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998) and Canaries (Koehler 1909) in the east; also found in the south of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (Martynov & Litvinova 2008) and off Tristan da Cunha (Lyman 1878). Depth: 150– 1,875 m (Gage et al . 1983, Paterson 1985); AZO: 1,740 m (Koehler 1921a). Habitat: hard to soft sediments (Koehler 1909, Jesus ... : 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 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...