Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman 1883

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiochitonidae; Ophiochiton; Ophiochiton ternispinus; Davis Strait; Iceland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583070; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583070

Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman, 1883 Reports for the Azores: Ophiochiton solutum $ Koehler, 1906a: 16–17, pl. 2, figs. 22–23, 1906b: 269–271, pl. 20, figs. 39–40; Ophiochiton solutus Koehler, 1906 a—Mortensen 1927a: 224; Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman, 1883 — Paterson 1985: 96–98, fig. 39; Alva & Vadon 1989: 840; Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 104–107, fig. 17H; Benavides-Serrato et al. 2011: 331–332; Smirnov et al. 2014: 208. Type locality: southwest of Ireland. See: Lyman (1883: 255); Paterson (1985); Borges & Amaral (2007: 858); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2011). Occurrence: Atlantic Ocean, in the west from the Davis Strait (Mortensen 1933a) south through the NE American coasts to Brazil (Borges & Amaral 2007), including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea and in east from SE of Iceland (Mortensen 1933a) to Namibia (Alva & Vadon 1989), including the Azores (Koehler, 1906b). Depth: 256– 2,220 m (Koehler, 1906 b, Alva & Vadon 1989); AZO: 2,155 –2,220 m (Koehler, 1906b). Habitat: soft substrates (Borges & Amaral 2007). Remarks: Koehler (1906a, b) described Ophiochiton solutus (= O. solutum) based on the specimens collected by Talisman at the NW African coast (type locality) and the Azores (sta 129, 1883: 38°00’N, 27°02’46”W, 2,155 –2,220 m). Later, Paterson (1985) found this species to be identical with O. ternispinus and established the synonymy. 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 27, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161