Gracilechinus affinis ...

• 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; Echinoidea; Camarodonta; Echinidae; Gracilechinus; Gracilechinus affinis; Andreas; Gage; Ricardo; Rockall Trough; Denmark Strait; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583320; https://zenodo.org/record/5583320

Gracilechinus affinis (Mortensen, 1903) Reports for the Azores: Echinus affinis Mortensen, 1903 — $ Koehler 1909: 229–230, pl. 31, figs. 1–2, 19; Mortensen 1927a: 305–306, fig. 174, 1943a: 83–86, pl. 11, figs. 1–7, pl. 55, figs. 15, 17, 19; Gage et al. 1985: 183–184; Serafy & Fell 1985: 21, fig. 26; Gracilechinus affinis Mortensen, 1903 — Mironov 2014: 123. Type locality: south of Iceland. See: Mortensen (1903: 150–152, pl. 5, figs. 4, 8, pl. 15, figs. 3, 10, pl. 16, figs. 6, 20, pl. 18, figs. 4, 16, 28, pl. 19, fig. 27, pl. 20, figs. 17, 21; 1943a). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the east coast of the USA, the Denmark Strait and Iceland (Mortensen 1903) south to Rockall Trough (D̂derlein 1906), Galicia (N Spain; Koehler 1921a) and the Azores (Koehler 1909). Depth: 770–2,700 (?5,300) m (Mironov 2014); AZO: 1,482 –2,252 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft bottoms, muddy sand to ooze (Koehler 1909, Gage et al . 1985); possibly an opportunistic scavenger (Gage et al . 1985). Larval stage: planktotrophic ... : 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 109-110, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...