Chaetaster longipes (Bruzelius 1805)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Valvatida
- family
- Chaetasteridae
- genus
- Chaetaster
- species
- Chaetaster longipes
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality:? Mediterranean Sea. See: Tortonese (1965); A. M. Clark & Downey (1992). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and East Atlantic, from Bay of Biscay (Koehler 1909) to Annobón Island in Gulf of Guinea (Nataf & Cherbonnier 1975), including the archipelagos of the Azores (Sladen 1889), Madeira (Wirtz 2006), Canaries (Garrido et al. 2004), Cape Verde (Koehler 1909), St Helena (Mortensen 1933 c) and Ascension (Pawson 1978). Depth: 30 – 1,140 m (Mortensen 1927 a); AZO: 30 – 165 (? 823) m (Wirtz 2009, Sladen 1889). Habitat: hard to soft substrates (Garrido et al. 2004). Remarks: Sladen (1889) identified Chaetaster longipes among the material dredged by H. M. S. Challenger in the Azores (sta 75: 38 ° 38 ’ 00 ” N, 28 ° 28 ’ 30 ” W) at a depth of 823 m. We believe that this material came from much shallower depths than reported, possibly between 91 – 165 m (see remarks under Astropecten hermatophilus).
Name
- Homonyms
- Chaetaster longipes (Bruzelius 1805)