Ophioctenella acies Tyler et al. 1995

• 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; Ophioctenella; Ophioctenella acies; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Andreas; Ricardo; Paterson; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583169; https://zenodo.org/record/5583169

Ophioctenella acies Tyler et al ., 1995 Reports for the Azores: Ophioctenella acies Tyler et al . 1995 — $ St̂hr & Segonzac 2005: 395–396, figs. 2, 7. Type locality: Mid-Atlantic Ridge. See: Tyler et al . (1995); St̂hr & Segonzac (2005); Desbruyères et al . (2006: 483, figs. 1–3). Occurrence: Atlantic, along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from Lucky Strike (SW Azores, c. 37°17’N, 32°16’W) south to Snake Pit (23°22’N, 44°56’W), westwards from Blake Plateau and Florida Escarpment to south of Barbados. Depth: 1,626 –3,650 m (Desbruyères et al . 2006), though it seems to reach higher densities at depths greater than 3,000 m (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005); AZO: 1,626 –1,727 m (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005). Habitat: restricted to chemosynthetic areas, found at hydrothermal vents and methane cold seeps, usually in association with deep-sea mytilid beds (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005). Larval stage: probable planktotrophic (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005). Remarks: Ophioctenella acies appears to be the only echinoderm species restricted to active vent sites known to occur in the Azores. In one of the few echinoderm studies from deep-sea reducing environments in the North Atlantic, St̂hr & Segonzac (2005) identify several animals of O . acies from Lucky Strike, but found this species conspicuously absent from hydrothermal vents of Menez Gwen. : 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 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 : {"references": ["Tyler, P. A., Paterson, G. J. L., Sibuet, M., Guille, A., Murtons, B. J. & Segonzac, M. (1995) A new genus of ophiuroid (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from hydrothermal mounds along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 75, 977 - 986. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400038303", "St \u02c6 hr, S. & Segonzac, M. (2005) Deep-sea ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from reducing and non-reducing environments in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85 (2), 383 - 402. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315405011318 h", "Desbruyeres, D. l., Segonzac, M. & Bright, M. (2006) Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition. Denisia, 18, 1 - 544."]}