Cheiraster (Cheiraster) sepitus (Verrill 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
- Cheiraster
- species
- Cheiraster sepitus
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: S of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, USA. See: A. M. Clark (1981); A. M. Clark & Downey (1992); Benavides – Serrato et al. (2011). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from Nova Scotia south to the Caribbean (A. M. Clark 1981), east from west of Iceland (A. M. Clark & Downey 1992) and the Rockall Trough (Harvey et al. 1988) southwards to the Cape Verde area including the Azores (Koehler 1909). Depth: 304 – 3,706 m (Benavides – Serrato et al. 2011), mostly 1,000 – 2,000 m (A. M. Clark 1981); AZO: 1,165 – 3,706 m (Sladen 1889). Habitat: soft bottoms, muddy sand to ooze (Koehler 1909). Remarks: the inaccurate original description of the type material by Verrill (1885 a) and subsequent multiplicity of synonymies resulted in an unclear geographical and bathymetric range for Cheiraster sepitus (A. M. Clark 1981; A. M. Clark & Downey 1992).