Mesothuria rugosa Herouard 1912 ...

• 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; Holothuroidea; Aspidochirotida; Mesothuriidae; Mesothuria; Mesothuria rugosa; Andreas; Benavides; Ricardo; Rugosa; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583411; https://zenodo.org/record/5583411

Mesothuria rugosa Hérouard, 1912 Reports for the Azores: p.p. Mesothuria murrayi (Théel, 1886) — $ Hérouard 1902: 23–24; Mesothuria rugosa Hérouard, 1912 — $ Deichmann 1930: 98–99, pl. 8, figs. 1–6. Type locality: off Cape Verde (16°12’30”N, 24°43’45”W). See: Hérouard (1912: 1–3, fig. 1; 1923: 19–21, pl. 1, figs. 11–21, pl. 2, figs. 1, 2); Deichmann (1930); Benavides-Serrato et al . (2012: 206); Gebruk (2012: 308–309, figs. 9, 12). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Caribbean waters eastwards to the Azores and Cape Verde (Hérouard 1912, Deichmann 1930). Depth: 460– 3,890 m (Benavides-Serrato et al . 2012); AZO: 1,600 m (Hérouard 1902). Habitat: soft substrates (Hérouard 1902). Remarks: Deichmann (1930) re-examined one of the two specimens collected by Princesse Alice southeast of Flores Island (sta 719: 39°11’00”N, 30°24’15”W, 1,600 m) and identified by Hérouard (1902) as Mesothuria murrayi . She compared with her specimens of M . rugosa from the Caribbean waters and found them to be identical. Considering 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 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...