Gracilechinus elegans ...

• 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 elegans; Norway; Bergen; Andreas; Ricardo; Koren; Gage; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583499; https://zenodo.org/record/5583499

Erroneous— Gracilechinus elegans (Düben & Koren, 1846) Reports for the Azores: Echinus elegans (D̹ben & Koren, 1846)— Mortensen 1927a: 303–304, fig. 139, 1943a: 61–65, fig. 19, pl. 12, figs. 1–8, pl. 13, fig. 1, pl. 14, figs. 1–6; Nobre 1938: 116–117; Gage et al . 1985: 185; Mironov 2006: 110; Micael & Costa 2010: 323; Micael et al . 2012: 4. Type locality: Bergen, Norway. See: D̹ben & Koren (1844: 272–274, pl. 10, figs. 40–42, as Echinus elegans ); Mortensen (1943a); Mironov (2006). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic (Mecho et al . 2014); from Iceland and Scandinavia as far south as Cape Spartel, in the North African coast (Mortensen 1903, 1927a, b); also reported from the Antialtair Seamount (Mironov 2006). Depth: 50– 1,710 m (Mironov 2006). Habitat: soft sediment; bioeroder (deep-water corals; Stevenson & Rocha 2012). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995). Remarks: Mortensen (1927a) listed the Azores under the geographical range of this species. However, to our ... : 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 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...