Pectinaster filholi Perrier 1885
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Notomyotida
- family
- Benthopectinidae
- genus
- Pectinaster
- species
- Pectinaster filholi
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: off Cap Blanc. See: A. M. Clark (1981); A. M. Clark & Downey (1992). Occurrence: Atlantic; in the west from south of Nova Scotia to Delaware (Sladen 1889); in the east from the Rockall Trough (Gage et al. 1983) southwards to South Africa (Clark 1981) and on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, from the Reykjanes Ridge (South of Iceland; Dilman 2006) south to the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (Dilman 2008) and the Azores (Perrier 1894); also reported off the River Plate, South America (Sladen 1889). Depth: 1,258 – 4,850 m (AZO: 1,258 m; Sladen 1889, Perrier 1894). Habitat: soft sediment, mud or Globigerina ooze (Sladen 1889, Gage et al. 1983). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (McEdward & Miner 2001). Remarks: Perrier (1885 c, 1894) described the deep-sea asteroid Pectinaster filholi based on the material collected by Talisman, which included the only known specimen from Azorean waters (sta 126, 1883: 38 ° 37 ’ N, 28 ° 20 ’ 46 ” W, 1,258 m), the same specimen re-examined later by A. M. Clark & Downey (1992).
Name
- Homonyms
- Pectinaster filholi Perrier 1885