Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Pedinoida
- family
- Pedinidae
- genus
- Caenopedina
- species
- Caenopedina cubensis
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: off Havana, Cuba. See: Koehler (1909); Mortensen (1940 a). Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the West, in USA coast from northern Nova Scotia to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico (Downey 1968, Serafy & Fell 1985); in the East recorded from the Azores and Canaries (Koehler 1909). Depth: 250 – 1,187 m (Koehler 1909, Serafy & Fell 1985); AZO: 1,187 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft substrates (Koehler 1909); feeds on bottom detritus (Serafy & Fell 1985). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995). Remarks: Caenopedina cubensis is known from the Azores by two specimens reported by Koehler (1909) on the material collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1311: 37 ° 37 ’ 00 ” N, 25 ° 20 ’ 45 ” W, 1,187 m).
Name
- Homonyms
- Caenopedina cubensis Agassiz 1869