Hymenaster giboryi Perrier 1894

• 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; Pterasteridae; Hymenaster; Hymenaster giboryi; Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583194; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583194

Hymenaster giboryi Perrier, 1894 Reports for the Azores: Hymenaster giboryi Perrier, 1894 — $ Koehler 1909: 93, pl. 1, figs. 2–3; Mortensen 1927a: 106; Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 381–382; Sibuet 1976: 298; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 316–317 figs. 51f–h; García-Diez et al. 2005: 47; Dilman 2014: 35. Type locality: between the Azores and Portugal (42°19’00”N, 21°15’46”W). See: Perrier (1894: 189–190, pl. 14, fig. 1); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from off Newfoundland (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972), southwards to off Jamaica (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992) and eastwards to Rockall Trough (Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972) and to waters between Azores and Iberian Peninsula (Koehler 1909). Depth: 1,919–4,275 m (AZO: 1,919–4,261 m; Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft substrates, mud or Globigerina ooze (Koehler 1909). Remarks: Hymenaster giboryi is known only from a few specimens collected at discrete locations throughout the North Atlantic. 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 59, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161