Benthothuria funebris Perrier 1898

• 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; Holothuroidea; Aspidochirotida; Synallactidae; Benthothuria; Benthothuria funebris; Greenland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5583416; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583416

Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1898 Reports for the Azores: Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1899 — $ Gebruk 2008: 50, 51. Type locality: off Cape Blanc, NW Africa. See: Perrier (1902: 365–371); Rogacheva et al. (2013: 591, figs. 17B, 19B). Occurrence: East Atlantic, from Greenland eastwards from the Rockall Trough (Gage et al. 1985) south to Angola (Jones et al. 2014), including the Azores (Gebruk 2008). Depth: 782– 3,757 m (Rogacheva et al. 2013); AZO: 2,954 –2,968 m (Gebruk 2008). Habitat: soft sediment, from mud to sand (with shells and corals; Perrier 1902); may be able to swim (Rogacheva et al. 2013). Remarks: Recently, Gebruk (2008) identified the species B. funebris among material collected at the north border of the Azorean EEZ (G.O. Sars, MAR–ECO cruise, sta 40/367: 42°55’N, 30°20’W, 2,954 –2,968 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 page 157, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161