Aceste bellidifera Thomson 1877
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Spatangoida
- family
- Schizasteridae
- genus
- Aceste
- species
- Aceste bellidifera
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: off Gomera Island, Canaries. See: Thomson (1877: 349 – 351, figs. 95 – 96); Mortensen (1950: 332 – 333, figs. 224, 225). Occurrence: Atlantic, in the west recorded from the USA (c. 37 ° N) and the Caribbean to southern America, and Tristan da Cunha (Agassiz 1881, Serafy & Fell 1985, Mironov 2014); in the east recorded from the Iberian Basin (Mironov 2014), Morocco (Mortensen 1927 b), Josephine Seamount (Mironov 2006), the Azores (Koehler 1909) and Canaries (Thomson 1877). Depth: 550 – 5,400 m (Serafy & Fell 1985, Mironov 2014); AZO: 1,360 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: buried on soft substrates, mud to sandy mud and shells (Agassiz 1881, Pawson & Pawson 2013). Remarks: the record of Aceste bellidifera in the Azores is based on a single small specimen (= 14 mm TL) identified by Koehler (1909) among the material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 703: 39 ° 21 ’ 20 ” N, 31 ° 05 ’ 45 ” W, 1,360 m).
Name
- Homonyms
- Aceste bellidifera Thomson 1877