Freyella elegans ...

• 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; Brisingida; Freyellidae; Freyella; Freyella elegans; Andreas; Gage; Greenland; Grieg; Howell; Perrier; Ricardo; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583210; https://zenodo.org/record/5583210

Freyella elegans (Verrill, 1884) Reports for the Azores: Freyella spinosa Perrier, 1894 — Grieg 1932: 31; $ Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 385; Gage et al . 1983: 285;. Freyella elegans (Verrill, 1884) — $ Dilman 2008: 148; Dilman 2013: 584, 2014: 39. Type locality: off New England. See: Downey (1986: 43–46, fig. 22); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992: 484–485, fig. 69f, pl. 113, figs. A, B). Occurrence: Atlantic, from North Carolina northwards to Greenland (Downey 1986) and eastwards to Europe (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972), including the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (Gage et al . 1983), southwards along West Africa to Namibia (Sibuet 1975), including the Mid-Atlantic Azorean waters (Dilman 2008). Depth: 1,600–4,849 m (AZO: 2,063–3,050 m; Dilman 2008). Habitat: suspension feeder (copepods, crustacean remains, foraminiferans; Howell et al . 2003) on soft bottoms (Perrier 1894) or attached to the rock surface and dead gorgonians (Tyler & Zibrowius 1992). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (McEdward & Miner 2001). ... : 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 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...