Marthasterias glacialis

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Forcipulatida; Asteriidae; Marthasterias; Marthasterias glacialis; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583214; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D2120411FF90FF33FD31748B1208

Marthasterias glacialis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 13) Reports for the Azores: Asteracanthion glacialis — $ M̹ller & Troschel 1842: 14–15; Asterias glacialis Lamarck, 1816 —Drouët: 211; Barrois 1888: 31; Asterias glacialis M̹ller, 1776— $ Barrois 1888: 32, 69, 113, 114; Asterias glacialis Linnaeus, 1758 — $ Simroth 1888: 231, 232; $ Koehler 1909: 116; Koehler 1914b: 269; $ Nobre 1924: 88, 1930: 68; Stolasterias glacialis Linck, 1733 — $ Perrier 1894: 109; Stolasterias madeirensis Stimpson, 1862 — $ Perrier 1896a: 37; Marthasterias glacialis (Linnaeus, 1758) — $ H.L. Clark 1923: 305; Mortensen 1927a: 143–144, fig. 82; $ Cadenat 1938: 349; Nobre 1938: 34–36, figs. 8, 9; $ Chapman 1955: 400; $ Tortonese 1965: 188–192, figs. 89, 91; $ Marques 1983: 2; Clark & Downey 1992: 443–445, fig. 67d, pl. 101, fig. C; Moyse & Tyler 1995: 671, fig. 12.4; Pereira 1997: 335; $ Morton et al . 1998: 62, figs. 3.4Y, 3.7P, 8.1K; Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 1999: 49, 2002: 281–282; García-Diez et al. 2005: 48; $ Micael et al . 2006: 5, 2010: 329; Micael & Costa 2010: 321; Pérez-Portela et al . 2010: 2015–2028; Marthasterias glacialis rarispina (Perrier, 1875) — $ A.M. Clark 1951: 211–212; Marthasterias glacialis (M̹ller, 1776)— $ Fisher 1928: 130, pl. 42, fig. 4, pl. 43, fig. 6. See: Mortensen (1927a); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992); Picton (1993: 36). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and East Atlantic; from Iceland and Finmark (Mortensen 1927a) along the European and West African coasts (Nataf & Cherbonnier 1975) to? South Africa (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992), including the archipelagos of the Azores (Koehler 1909), Madeira (Augier 1985), Selvagens (Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 2002), Canaries (Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 2003) and Cape Verde (Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 1999). Depth: 0–180 m, rarely below 50 m (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992); AZO: 0–35 m (herein). Habitat: found on rocky shores, on biogenic detritus, sandy to silty sand substrates, and in Zostera and Posidonia meadows (Koukouras et al . 2007); feeds mainly on molluscs but also on ...