Ophiothamnus affinis Ljungman 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; Ophiothamnus; Ophiothamnus affinis; Andreas; Paterson; Ricardo; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583455; https://zenodo.org/record/5583455

Erroneous— Ophiothamnus affinis Ljungman, 1872 Reports for the Azores: Ophiothamnus affinis Ljungman, 1872 — Nobre 1938: 75–76. Type locality: Portugal (38°10’N, 9°25’W). See: Ljungman (1872: 622); Paterson (1985: 73, fig. 27); Bartsch (1987: 125–126, figs. 25–26). Occurrence: North Atlantic, in west recorded from Florida and in the east from the Bay of Biscay to the Western Sahara coast (NW Africa) and Madeira (Koehler 1909, 1914 a, Bartsch 1987). Depth: 1,425 –1,935 m (Paterson 1985), though in the West Atlantic it was recorded at depths of 229–491 m (Koehler 1914a). Habitat: soft sediment (sand; Koehler 1914a). Remarks: Nobre (1938) listed a specimen of Ophiothamnus affinis collected by Talisman and Travailleur between the Azores and Portugal continental shores, at 38°23’N, 31°10’W (probably using the Paris Meridian) and at a depth of 500 m without referring to a specific station. The coordinates given by the author seem to refer to station 123 conducted by Talisman in 1883, placing the specimen well ... : 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 165-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...