Histocidaris purpurata ? (Thomson 1872 ...
Histocidaris purpurata ? (Thomson, 1872b) Reports for the Azores: Porocidaris purpurata Thomson, 1872 b—? $ Pérès 1992: 252. Type locality: about 100 miles to the north of the Hebrides. See: Mortensen (1928: 104–107, pl. 1, fig. 6, pl. 3, figs. 3–5, as Poriocidaris purpurata ); Gage et al . (1985: 1...
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| Summary: | Histocidaris purpurata ? (Thomson, 1872b) Reports for the Azores: Porocidaris purpurata Thomson, 1872 b—? $ Pérès 1992: 252. Type locality: about 100 miles to the north of the Hebrides. See: Mortensen (1928: 104–107, pl. 1, fig. 6, pl. 3, figs. 3–5, as Poriocidaris purpurata ); Gage et al . (1985: 179 as Poriocidaris purpurata ). Occurrence: North Atlantic; in the East from southern Iceland south to the Canaries and Western Sahara (Koehler 1909, Mortensen 1927b, 1928); in the west known only from the Caribbean (Phelan 1970); reported elsewhere in South African waters (Filander et al . 2019). Depth: 300– 1,800 m (Gage et al . 1985); AZO:? 800 m (Pérès 1992). Habitat: soft sediments, from sandy mud to muddy bottoms (Koehler 1909, Mortensen 1928); gut contents revealed bottom material and fragments of crustaceans (Mortensen 1928). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (Emlet 1995). Remarks: on a dive made by the bathyscaphe Archimède in the Azores, Pérès (1992) reported to have observed animals of Histocidaris purpurata ... : 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 pages 98-99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ... |
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