Pentametrocrinus atlanticus

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
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• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Crinoidea; Comatulida; Pentametrocrinidae; Pentametrocrinus; Pentametrocrinus atlanticus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583032; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D212045FFFC3FF33F9AB728F11E4

Pentametrocrinus atlanticus (Perrier, 1883a) Reports for the Azores: Eudiocrinus atlanticus Perrier, 1883 a— $ Koehler 1909: 271–274, pl. 32, figs. 15–18; Pentametrocrinus atlanticus (Perrier, 1883a) — $ A.H. Clark & A.M. Clark 1967: 790–794; $ Messing 1978: 699–708, figs. 1–18; A.M. Clark 1980: 203–204; Messing & Dearborn 1990: 26, fig. 6; García-Diez et al . 2005: 46; Type locality: North of Spain (44°01’20”N, 7°04’45”W). See: Perrier (1883a); Koehler (1909); Messing (1978). Occurrence: North Atlantic; in the western Atlantic reported from Florida and the Caribbean islands (Messing 1978); in the eastern Atlantic recorded from the Porcupine Bank (SW of Ireland) and from the Bay of Biscay south to Western Sahara, including the Azores and Canaries (A.H. Clark & A.M. Clark 1967; A.M. Clark 1980). Depth: 374– 2,115 m (Messing & Dearborn 1990); AZO: 1,165 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft substrates, fine sand to mud (A.H. Clark & A.M. Clark 1967); it can be found together with sponges, alcyonarians and azooxanthellate colonial scleractinians (Messing & Dearborn 1990). Remarks: Koehler (1909) reported a single specimen belonging to Pentametrocrinus atlanticus (= Eudiocrinus atlanticus ) among the material collected in the Azores by Princesse Alice (sta 578: 38°26’00”N, 26°30’45”W, 1,165 m). Later, A.H. Clark & A.M. Clark (1967) and Messing (1978) re-examined the animal from the Azores and confirmed the historical identification by Koehler. It is possible that the crinoid observed by Pérès (1992) during a dive by the bathyscaphe Archimède west of Santa Maria at 700 m depth, and described by the author as ‘crinoid of Leptometra type’ may have been this species (see remarks above under Leptometra celtica ). 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 16-17, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, ...