Ophioplinthus tessellata

• 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; Ophiuridae; Ophioplinthus; Ophioplinthus tessellata; Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583155; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D2120460FFE3FF33FBF8747F17B7

Ophioplinthus tessellata (Verrill, 1894) Reports for the Azores: Ophioglypha tessellata Verrill, 1894 — $ Koehler 1896a: 203–204, 1898: 37–40, pl. 7, figs. 34, 36, 1909: 156–157, pl. 25, figs. 12–13, pl. 27, figs. 5–6; Homalophiura tesselata (Verrill, 1894) — Mortensen 1927a: 231, 1933a: 91–92, pl. 3, fig. 17; $ Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 408–409; Ophiura tessellata Verrill, 1894 — Grieg 1932: 33; Homophiura tessellata (Verrill, 1894) — Paterson 1985: 137–138, fig. 52; García-Diez et al . 2005: 49; Smirnov et al . 2014: 202; Ophioplinthus tessellata (Verrill, 1894) — Martynov & Litvinova 2008: 83–88, figs. 4A, C, 5A–C. Type locality: east coast of North America, between 39°35’N and 41°47’N. See: Verrill (1894: 290–293, as Ophioglypha tessellata ); Paterson (1985); Martynov & Litvinova (2008). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Greenland (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972) to south of Block Island (off the coast of Rhode Island; Paterson 1985), eastwards from south of Iceland (Mortensen 1933a), in European waters south to Cape Verde, and along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south to the Azores (Koehler 1909, Martynov & Litvinova 2008). Depth: 433– 4,706 m (Smirnov et al . 2014); AZO: 1,919 –2,870 m (Koehler 1896b, 1909). Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (Kasyanov et al . 1998). Remarks: Koehler (1906b, 1909) reported O. tessellata in the Azores ( Talisman , sta 248: 41°40'41"N, 26°44'09"W, 2870 m; Princesse Alice , sta 738: 37°40'N, 26°26'15"W, 1919 m). Later, Cherbonnier & Sibuet (1977) also recorded this relatively large species in the area ( Noratlante , sta P65B10: 36°58'02"N, 26°20'W, 2870 m). No other material was reported in the Azores. 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 49, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161