Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars 1872

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiacanthidae; Ophiacantha; Ophiacantha abyssicola; Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583088; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D212044FFFF3FF33F88F729E1208

Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 Reports for the Azores: Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars, 1872 — $ Koehler 1909: 182; Farran 1913: 38–39, fig. 9d; Mortensen 1927a: 194, figs. 105.5–6; Grieg 1932: 37; García-Diez et al . 2005: 49. Type locality: Norway. See: Sars (1872: 8–10); Paterson (1985: 47–48, fig. 20). Occurrence: North Atlantic, Northeast American coast, north of Cape Hatteras to Greenland and Iceland, eastwards to Scandinavia, southwards to the Western Sahara (Paterson (1985), including the Azores (Koehler 1909), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu (1998), Canaries (Madsen 1970), and the Atlantis Seamount (A.H. Clark 1949). Depth: 35– 3,500 m (Mortensen (1927a), an upper bathyal species that may occur in shallow waters at higher latitudes, such as the Norwegian Sea (Gage et al . 1983); AZO: 880 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: rock, coral, mud to gravel and detritic substrates (Farran 1913; Cherbonnier 1969, 1970); it can form dense beds (Metaxas & Giffin 2004). Remarks: the record of Ophiacantha abyssicola in the Azores is based on a single small specimen collected by Princesse Alice (sta 837: 37°55’N, 25°24’15”W, 880 m) and identified by Koehler (1909). 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 32-33, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161