Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill 1885
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiacanthidae
- genus
- Ophiacantha
- species
- Ophiacantha crassidens
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: off Cape Hatteras, USA. See: Verrill (1885 a: 152 – 153); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: North Atlantic; it is known from west of Cape Hatteras and off Virginia in the West Atlantic and from the British waters to south of the Azores in the East Atlantic (Paterson 1985). Depth: 970 – 3,120 m (Smirnov et al. 2014); AZO: 1,095 – 2,200 m (Koehler 1909, St ̂ hr & Segonzac 2005). Habitat: soft sediments, sand to mud (Koehler 1909; Grieg 1932). Remarks: Koehler (1906 a, b) described Ophiacantha decipiens from a specimen collected by Talisman in the Azores (sta 127, 1883: 38 ° 38 ’ N, 28 ° 20 ’ 46 ” W, 1,257 m). Koehler (1906 a) believed that this species was a close ally of O. smitti Ljungman, 1872, a species reported from the archipelago by St ̂ hr & Segonzac (2005). Koehler (1909) also reported O. crassidens from the Azores, based on material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 703: 39 ° 21 ’ 20 ” N, 31 ° 05 ’ 45 ” W, 1,360 m; sta 1344: 38 ° 45 ’ 30 ” N, 28 ° 07 ’ 45 ” W, 1,095 m). Later, Paterson (1985) compared the type material of O. decipiens with specimens belonging to O. crassidens and found them to be conspecific. More recently, St ̂ hr & Segonzac (2005) reported an animal belonging to this species from Mount Saldanha, in the southwesternmost waters of the Azores (SEAHMA – 1, sta PL 181 – 3: 36 ° 33 ’ 38 ” N, 33 ° 24 ’ 49 ” W, 2,200 m).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiacantha crassidens Verrill 1885