Pythonaster atlantidis $ A. H. Clark 1948

• 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; Asteroidea; Velatida; Myxasteridae; Pythonaster; Pythonaster atlantidis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583187; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583187

Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948 Reports for the Azores: Pythonaster atlantidis $ A.H. Clark 1948: 76–77; $ A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 339; $ Mah et al. 2012: 60–61, figs. 3A–D; Dilman 2014: 37. Type locality: Azores (35°37’N, 30°51’W). See: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992); Mah et al. (2012). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Hudson Canyon (38°25’N, 70°52’W; Mah et al. 2012) east to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (SW Ireland; Howell et al. 2002) and southern Azorean waters (A.H. Clark 1948). Depth: 2,976–4,877 m (Mah et al. 2012); AZO: 3,200 m (A.H. Clark 1948). Larval stage: possibly direct development (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992). Remarks: currently, P. atlantidis is known from the Azores only from the type specimen collected by Atlantis, at the border between the Azorean and Meteor Seamount. 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 58, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161