Homolampas fragilis

• 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; Spatangoida; Maretiidae; Homolampas; Homolampas fragilis; Andreas; Ricardo; Perez; Diaz; Vance; Pawson; Benavides; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583502; https://zenodo.org/record/5583502

Erroneous— Homolampas fragilis (Agassiz, 1869) Reports for the Azores: non Homolampas fragilis (Agassiz) —A.H. Clark 1949: 376, 377. [misidentified A. atlantica ] Type locality: Caribbean. See: Mortensen (1950: 266–272, pl. 7, figs. 5–6, pl. 13, figs. 5, pl. 25, figs. 1,4, 13, 15–18); Benavides-Serrato et al . (2012: 118). Occurrence: Western Atlantic, known only from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (Mortensen 1950). Depth: 550– 3,550 m (Mortensen 1950). Habitat: infaunal, in soft bottoms (Pawson et al. 2009). Remarks: A.H. Clark (1949) reported this species from the Azores, based fragments of two medium-sized specimens retrieved by Atlantis , west of S„o Miguel Island (cruise 152, sta 20: 37°50’30”N, 26°00’00”W, 2,562 m). Later, Serafy (1974) re-examined one of the specimens and assigned it to his newly described species, Araeolampas atlantica . The second specimen of H.L. Clark was not mentioned by Serafy, but it seems likely that this also was an Araeolampas , since H. fragilis does not reach a size larger than 35 mm (Serafy 1974) and confirmed records of H. fragilis are restricted to the West 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 page 173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 : {"references": ["Agassiz, A. (1869) Preliminary report on the echini and star-fishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales, Assist. U. S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo \u02c6 logy at Harvard College, 1 (9), 253 - 308.", "Clark, A. H. (1949) Echinoderms from the mid-Atlantic dredged by lhe Atlantis in the summer of 1948. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 39, 371 - 377.", "Mortensen, T. (1950) A Monograph of the Echinoidea. Vol. 1. Spatangoida I. Protosternata, Meridosternata, Amphisternata I. Palaeopneustidae, Palaeostomatidae, Aeropsidae, Toxasteridae, Micrasteridae, Hemiasteridae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 432 pp.", "Benavides-Serrato, M., Borrero-Perez, G. H. & Diaz-Sanchez, C. M. (2012) Equinodermos del Caribe colombiano II: Echinoidea y Holothuroidea. Vol. 30. Serie de Publicaciones Especiales de Invemar, Santa Marta, 250 pp.", "Pawson, D. L., Vance, D. J., Messing, C. G., Solis-Marin, F. A. & Mah, C. L. (2009) Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder D. L. & Camp, D. K. (Eds.), Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, pp. 1177 - 1204.", "Serafy, D. K. (1974) A new heart-urchin, Araeolampas atlantica, new genus, new species, from the North Atlantic and notes on the closely related Homolampas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 87, 41 - 48."]}