Ophiomusium lymani Wyville Thomson 1873

• Main Authors: Rodrigues, Clara F., Paterson, Gordon L. J., Cabrinovic, Andrew, Cunha, Marina R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea; Ophiurida; Ophiolepididae; Ophiomusium; Ophiomusium lymani; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191812; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6AA27AB0FFFBC91C2B694D58AFD68

Ophiomusium lymani Wyville Thomson, 1873 Material examined. Porto MV, MSM01-03, stn 167, 1 ind. (DBUA 001094.01). Ecology and distribution. Ophiomusium lymani is a bathyal and abyssal species with a wide distribution in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans (Alva & Vadon 1989). In the Atlantic it has been reported from SE Iceland south to Cap Blanc at depths ranging from 651 to 4829 m (Paterson 1985). The single record from the Gulf of Cadiz is within its known bathymetric range. Only one specimen was collected from Porto MV among the frenulate (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae) fields that cover the crater. Published as part of Rodrigues, Clara F., Paterson, Gordon L. J., Cabrinovic, Andrew & Cunha, Marina R., 2011, Deep-sea ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiurida) from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2754 on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276727