Ophiacantha anomala Sars 1872 ...

• 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; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiacanthidae; Ophiacantha; Ophiacantha anomala; Greenland; Norway; Andreas; Ricardo; Paterson; Gage; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583437; https://zenodo.org/record/5583437

Erroneous— Ophiacantha anomala Sars, 1872 Reports for the Azores: Ophiacantha cuspidata Lyman, 1878 — Gage et al . 1983: 291; García-Diez et al . 2005: 49; Smirnov et al . 2014: 195–196. Type locality: Norway. See: Sars (1872: 12–15); Paterson (1985: 24–34, fig. 14, as Ophiacantha anomala 41–42, fig. 18, as Ophiacantha cuspidata ); St̂hr (2005: 551–552, figs. 4A–H); Martynov & Litvinova (2008: 96, figs. 7B–J). Occurrence: Atlantic, from the east coast of the USA to Greenland eastwards from Iceland and Scandinavia as far south as Ascension Island (Koehler 1914a, Mortensen 1933a, Paterson 1885). Depth: 140– 2,460 m (Paterson 1985). Habitat: soft to hard substrates (Lyman 1882, Koehler 1909). Larval stage: brooded within the gonads until postlarvae stage is reached (St̂hr 2005); adults are also known to be hermaphrodite (Mortensen 1936). Remarks: Gage et al . (1983) mentioned the presence of Ophiacantha cuspidata in an area ‘off Azores’ (a species recently found to be conspecific with the North Atlantic ... : 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 162-163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...