Ophiomitrella clavigera (Ljungman 1865)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiacanthidae
- genus
- Ophiomitrella
- species
- Ophiomitrella clavigera
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Norway. See: Mortensen (1933 a: 39 – 41, fig. 23); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the west from the Northern American coasts to Greenland and in the east from Iceland and Scandinavia to the British waters (Mortensen 1933 a, Paterson 1985). Depth: 166 – 1,952 m (Paterson 1985, Harvey et al. 1988). Habitat: coral epibiont and also known from muddy sand (Farran 1913). Larval stage: brooding, protandric hermaphrodite (Mortensen 1920). Remarks: Ophiomitrella clavigera was included in the Azorean fauna based on the erroneous assumption that O. cordifera was conspecific with this species (for details see remarks under Ophiomitrella cordifera).