Brissopsis lyrifera subsp. lyrifera (Forbes 1841) lyrifera (Forbes 1841
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Spatangoida
- family
- Brissidae
- genus
- Brissopsis
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Scotland, British Isles. See: Forbes (1841: 187 – 189); Mortensen (1951 b: 380 – 390, pl. 30, figs. 1 – 4, 7 – 13, pl. 32, figs. 15, 20, 22, pl. 57, fig. 15); Chesher (1968: 90 – 96, figs. 8, 18 – 19; pl. 21, figs. a – b, as Brissopsis lyrifera capensis). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and east Atlantic, from Iceland and Scandinavia (Mortensen 1907) to NW Africa (Mortensen 1927 a, b, Grieg 1932), including the Azores (Koehler 1898); the subspecies B. lyrifera capensis Mortensen 1907 was reported from South Africa, the Gulf of Guinea and the Caribbean (Chesher 1966, 1968). Depth: 5 – 2,250 m (Mortensen 1951 b, Mecho et al. 2014); AZO: 130 m (Koehler 1898). Habitat: buried in sand, mud to detritic substrates (Mortensen 1927 a, Cherbonnier 1969). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Harvey et al. 1988). Remarks: the only known material of Brissopsis lyrifera from the Azores is restricted to a single small specimen identified by Koehler (1895 a, 1898) among the material collected by Hirondelle (sta 226: 38 ° 31 ’ 19 ” N, 28 ° 34 ’ 31 ” W) in the channel between Pico and Faial islands, at a depth of 130 m.