Ophiura (Ophiura) mundata

• 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; Ophiuridae; Ophiura; Ophiura mundata; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583181; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583181

Ophiura (Ophiura) mundata (Koehler, 1906a) Reports for the Azores: non Ophioglypha irrorata Lyman, 1878 — $ Koehler 1896b: 241 [misidentification]; Ophioglypha mundata, Koehler, 1906 a— $ Koehler 1909: 153, pl. 27, figs. 7–8; Ophiura (Ophiuroglypha) mundata (Koehler, 1906a) — Mortensen 1933a: 88–89, figs. 48d–e, pl. 3, figs. 11–12; Ophiura (Ophiura) mundata (Koehler, 1906a) — Paterson 1985: 127–128, fig. 48; Smirnov et al. 2014: 205; Ophiura mundata Koehler, 1906 — García-Diez et al. 2005: 49. Type locality: waters between Canaries and NW Africa. See: Koehler (1906a: 10–11, pl. 1, figs. 4–6, as Ophioglypha mundata); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Labrador Basin eastwards to Iceland (Paterson 1985) and south from the Bay of Biscay to Morocco, including the Azores and Canaries (Koehler 1906b, 1909). Depth: 1,674–4,315 m (Smirnov et al. 2014); AZO: 1,919–4,020 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909). Remarks: the great similarity between Ophiura mundata and O. irrorata (Lyman, 1878) has led to doubtful identifications (Koehler 1896b), and they have been considered conspecific (Koehler 1914a). A taxonomic revision is needed to clear up the confusion (Paterson 1985). 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 56, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161