Histampica duplicata (Lyman 1875)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiactidae
- genus
- Histampica
- species
- Histampica duplicata
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Barbados, Caribbean. See: Lyman (1875: 19 – 20, fig. 87, pl. 5, fig. 78, as Amphiura duplicata); Paterson (1985: 79, 80, fig. 32); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2011: 313 – 314). Occurrence: cosmopolitan, in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans; in the west Atlantic, from Bermuda (Lyman 1882) and Caribbean to Brazil (Downey 1969); in the East Atlantic, from the Faeroe Plateau (Tyler et al. 2005) and Reykjanes Ridge (South of Iceland; Martynov & Litvinova 2008) to North Africa (Paterson 1985) including the Azores and Cape Verde archipelagos (Koehler 1909). Depth: 125 – 2,870 m (Paterson 1985); AZO: 1,095 – 2,178 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: hard to soft (sand or mud) substrates; can be found in association with azooxanthellate corals (Benavides-Serrato et al. 2011). Remarks: Despite being known in the archipelago only by historical reports, Histampica duplicata appears to be common in the Azorean deep-waters as Koehler (1898, 1909) recorded this species at numerous Hirondelle and Princesse Alice stations, from depths around 1000 m to 2000 m.
Name
- Homonyms
- Histampica duplicata (Lyman 1875)