Persephonaster patagiatus

• 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; Paxillosida; Astropectinidae; Persephonaster; Persephonaster patagiatus; Denmark Strait; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583240; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583240

Persephonaster patagiatus (Sladen, 1889) Reports for the Azores: non Psilaster andromeda (D̹ben & Karen, 1846)— $ Perrier 1896a: 51 [misidentification]; Psilasteropsis patagiatus (Sladen, 1889) — $ Koehler 1909: 62–63, pl. 3, fig. 2, pl. 4, fig. 3, pl. 19, fig. 1, 1921a: 2; Farran 1913: 7; Grieg 1932: 19; Persephonaster patagiatus (Sladen, 1889) — Mortensen 1927a: 65–66, fig. 37; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 63–64, figs. 14d, 15f–g, pl. 19, figs. A–C; García-Diez et al. 2005: 46; Dilman 2006: 180, 2014: 27; Psilaster patagiatus Sladen, 1889 — Gage et al. 1983: 275. Type locality: off Cape Verde. See: A.M. Clark & Downey (1992); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2011: 127). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Denmark Strait (SW of Iceland; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992), south of the Rockall Trough (Harvey et al. 1988) to NW Africa, including the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde (Koehler 1909); also reported for the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992). Depth: 730– 2,970 m (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992); AZO: 1,095 –1,919 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft sediments (Koehler 1909). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992). Remarks: Perrier (1896a) reported Psilaster andromeda based on material collected by Hirondelle in the Azores. Later, Koehler (1909) re-examined the material and concluded that Perrier confused P. andromeda with Persephonaster patagiatus (= Psilasteropsis patagiatus), and reassigned the specimens to the latter species (see remarks under P. andromeda andromeda). 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 78, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161