Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman 1883
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiochitonidae
- genus
- Ophiochiton
- species
- Ophiochiton ternispinus
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: southwest of Ireland. See: Lyman (1883: 255); Paterson (1985); Borges & Amaral (2007: 858); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2011). Occurrence: Atlantic Ocean, in the west from the Davis Strait (Mortensen 1933 a) south through the NE American coasts to Brazil (Borges & Amaral 2007), including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea and in east from SE of Iceland (Mortensen 1933 a) to Namibia (Alva & Vadon 1989), including the Azores (Koehler, 1906 b). Depth: 256 – 2,220 m (Koehler, 1906 b, Alva & Vadon 1989); AZO: 2,155 – 2,220 m (Koehler, 1906 b). Habitat: soft substrates (Borges & Amaral 2007). Remarks: Koehler (1906 a, b) described Ophiochiton solutus (= O. solutum) based on the specimens collected by Talisman at the NW African coast (type locality) and the Azores (sta 129, 1883: 38 ° 00 ’ N, 27 ° 02 ’ 46 ” W, 2,155 – 2,220 m). Later, Paterson (1985) found this species to be identical with O. ternispinus and established the synonymy.
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiochiton ternispinus Lyman 1883