Ophiomyxa serpentaria 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: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiomyxidae; Ophiomyxa; Ophiomyxa serpentaria; Denmark Strait; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583121; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D2120476FFF5FF33FBEB7424165B

Ophiomyxa serpentaria Lyman, 1883 Reports for the Azores: Ophiodera serpentina (Lyman, 1883) — $ Koehler 1909: 203; Ophiomyxa serpentaria Lyman, 1883 — Mortensen 1927a: 168, fig. 94a, 1933a: 11–14, figs. 1–3; Paterson 1985: 18–20, fig. 11; Harvey et al . 1988: 168; García-Diez et al . 2005: 48; Smirnov et al . 2014: 194. Type locality: Faeroe Channel (59°56’N, 6°27’W). See: Lyman (1883: 274, pl. 8, figs. 114–116); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from the Denmark Strait and Iceland southwards to the northwest African coast, including the Azores (Mortensen 1933a, Paterson 1985). Depth: 450– 2,440 m (Paterson 1985); AZO: 599– 1,095 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: sand (Koehler 1909), rock and coralligenous substrates (Cherbonnier 1969). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (Mortensen 1933a). Remarks: Ophiomyxa serpentaria is only known in the Azores from three poorly preserved specimens collected by Princesse Alice and reported by Koehler (1909) (sta 866: 38°52’50”N, 27°23’05”W, 599 m; sta 1344: 38°45’30”N, 28°07’45”W, 1,095 m). 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 39, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161