Pseudarchaster parelii (Duben & Koren 1846)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Paxillosida
- family
- Pseudarchasteridae
- genus
- Pseudarchaster
- species
- Pseudarchaster parelii
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Off Kristiansund, Norway. See: Halpern (1972); Clark & Downey (1992). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Barents Sea, Newfoundland, and southern Greenland, southwards to Florida; and from Iceland and Norway to Mauritania, including the Azores (Halpern 1972, A. M. Clark & Downey 1992). Depth: 75 – 3,540 m (Dilman 2006); AZO: 1,165 – 1,900 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: soft sediments, such as ooze, sand, gravel and stones (Sneli 1999). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (McEdward & Miner 2001). Remarks: Halpern (1972) re-examined the material described by Perrier (1885 c, 1894) as Pseudarchaster fallax (= Astrogonium fallax) and P. annectens (= Astrogonium annectens) from the Azores waters and established their synonymy with P. parelii.