Hymenaster tenuispinus $ Sibuet 1976 ...

• 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; Asteroidea; Velatida; Pterasteridae; Hymenaster; Hymenaster tenuispinus; Andreas; Antarctic; Charcot; Ricardo; Antarc*; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583197; https://zenodo.org/record/5583197

Hymenaster tenuispinus Sibuet, 1976 Reports for the Azores: Hymenaster tenuispinus $ Sibuet, 1976: 289–291, fig. 3. Type locality: off Brittany, France (47°34’N, 8°38’W). See: Sibuet (1976); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992: 323). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from west of Brittany (France) south to North of Galicia (Spain) in the Bay of Biscay west to the Azores (Sibuet 1976). Depth: 2,120–2,245 m (AZO: 2,120 m; Sibuet 1976). Remarks: the relatively unknown Hymenaster tenuispinus was described by Sibuet (1976) to encompass specimens collected in the Bay of Biscay. Sibuet also identified this species among the material taken in the southwest of Flores Island by the Jean Charcot during the expedition Biacores (sta 131BL: 39°04’30”N, 32°43’30”W, 2,120 m). Recently, Dilman (2013) noted that some of the specimens collected in the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone north of the Azores shared characters with H. tenuispinus and the sub-Antarctic H . coccinatus . According to Dilman, these two species differ only by the ... : 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 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...