Mesothuria intestinalis ...

• 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 intestinalis; Andreas; Norway; Ricardo; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583522; https://zenodo.org/record/5583522

Erroneous— Mesothuria intestinalis (Ascanius, 1805) Reports for the Azores: Mesothuria intestinalis (Ascanius, 1805) — Mortensen 1927a: 381; Nobre 1938: 150–152; Deichmann 1954: 385–386; Tortonese 1965: 69–70, fig. 26; Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 1992b: 144; Micael & Costa 2010: 323; Micael et al . 2012: 4. Type locality: Norway. See: Gebruk et al . (2012: 291–300, figs. 1, 9C–D). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic, from the Caribbean waters eastwards to the Gulf of Guinea, north to Scandinavian waters, including Canaries (Gebruk et al . 2012). Depth: 20– 2,480 m, infralitoral depths tend to be restricted to higher latitudes (Gebruk et al . 2012). Habitat: muddy substrates, usually covers itself with shell fragments and other bottom material (Mortensen 1927a). Larval stage: probably direct or lecithotrophic; hermaphroditic (Mortensen 1927a). Remarks: historically, reports of M. intestinalis and M. verrilli are intermingled. For example, Hérouard (1902) considered M. verrilli as just a variety of ... : 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 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...