Amphiura chiajei Forbes 1843

• Main Authors: Rodrigues, Clara F., Paterson, Gordon L. J., Cabrinovic, Andrew, Cunha, Marina R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Amphiuridae; Amphiura; Amphiura chiajei; Forbes; Kidd; Paterson; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191798; https://zenodo.org/record/6191798

Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843 Material examined. Mercator MV, TTR 15, stn AT 569, 1 ind. (DBUA 001069.01), stn AT 576, 15 inds. (DBUA 001069.02), stn AT 577, 2 inds. (DBUA 001069.03); Kidd MV, TTR 14, stn AT 560, 1 ind. (DBUA 001070.01). Ecology and distribution. Amphiura chiajei has been recorded from the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, and from West Africa; it is usually a shelf species but has been recorded from a depth of 1200 m (Paterson 1985). This species is reported as living buried in muddy sand, extending its arms above the surface of the sediments to feed on deposited material. In the Gulf of Cadiz it was collected from soft mud breccia in the crater of Mercator and Kidd mud volcanoes within its known bathymetric range (Fig. 7 A). : Published as part of Rodrigues, Clara F., Paterson, Gordon L. J., Cabrinovic, Andrew & Cunha, Marina R., 2011, Deep-sea ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiurida) from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2754 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276727 : {"references": ["Forbes, E. (1843) On the Radiata of the eastern Mediterranean. Part 1. Ophiuridae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19, 143 - 153.", "Paterson, G. L. J. (1985) The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 49 (1), 1 - 162."]}