Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman 1878)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiuridae
- genus
- Ophiopleura
- species
- Ophiopleura inermis
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Off Tristan da Cunha Island. See: Lyman (1878: 95 – 96, pl. 5, figs. 123 – 125, as Ophioglypha inermis); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: Atlantic species, known from Greenland and Iceland south to off Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts) in the west and to the Bay of Biscay (Paterson 1985), the Azores (Koehler 1921 a), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998) and Canaries (Koehler 1909) in the east; also found in the south of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (Martynov & Litvinova 2008) and off Tristan da Cunha (Lyman 1878). Depth: 150 – 1,875 m (Gage et al. 1983, Paterson 1985); AZO: 1,740 m (Koehler 1921 a). Habitat: hard to soft sediments (Koehler 1909, Jesus & Fonseca 1999). Remarks: Koehler (1921 a) reported the only specimen of Ophiopleura aurantiaca (as Ophiura aurantiaca) known from the Azores waters (Hirondelle II, sta 3150: 38 ° 01 ’ N, 25 ° 21 ’ W, 1,740 m), a species later found to be conspecific with Ophiopleura inermis (Mortensen 1933 a; Gage et al. 1983).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiopleura inermis (Lyman 1878)