Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Echinoidea; Pedinoida; Pedinidae; Caenopedina; Caenopedina cubensis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583309; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D2120435FFB5FF33F98572681128

Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz, 1869 Reports for the Azores: Hemipedina cubensis (Agassiz, 1869) — $ Koehler 1909: 221–226, pl. 1, fig. 1, pl. 30, figs. 8–17, pl. 31, fig. 21; Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869 — Mortensen 1927a: 277, 1940a: 96–99, pl. 2, figs. 19–20, pl. 66, figs. 1–9; Serafy & Fell 1985: 20, fig. 11; García-Diez et al . 2005: 50. Type locality: off Havana, Cuba. See: Koehler (1909); Mortensen (1940a). Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the West, in USA coast from northern Nova Scotia to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico (Downey 1968, Serafy & Fell 1985); in the East recorded from the Azores and Canaries (Koehler 1909). Depth: 250– 1,187 m (Koehler 1909, Serafy & Fell 1985); AZO: 1,187 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909); feeds on bottom detritus (Serafy & Fell 1985). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995). Remarks: Caenopedina cubensis is known from the Azores by two specimens reported by Koehler (1909) on the material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1311: 37°37’00”N, 25°20’45”W, 1,187 m). 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 pages 102-103, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161