Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars 1872
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiacanthidae
- genus
- Ophiacantha
- species
- Ophiacantha abyssicola
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Norway. See: Sars (1872: 8 – 10); Paterson (1985: 47 – 48, fig. 20). Occurrence: North Atlantic, Northeast American coast, north of Cape Hatteras to Greenland and Iceland, eastwards to Scandinavia, southwards to the Western Sahara (Paterson (1985), including the Azores (Koehler 1909), Madeira (Jesus & Abreu (1998), Canaries (Madsen 1970), and the Atlantis Seamount (A. H. Clark 1949). Depth: 35 – 3,500 m (Mortensen (1927 a), an upper bathyal species that may occur in shallow waters at higher latitudes, such as the Norwegian Sea (Gage et al. 1983); AZO: 880 m (Koehler 1909). Habitat: rock, coral, mud to gravel and detritic substrates (Farran 1913; Cherbonnier 1969, 1970); it can form dense beds (Metaxas & Giffin 2004). Remarks: the record of Ophiacantha abyssicola in the Azores is based on a single small specimen collected by Princesse Alice (sta 837: 37 ° 55 ’ N, 25 ° 24 ’ 15 ” W, 880 m) and identified by Koehler (1909).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiacantha abyssicola Sars 1872