Homolampas fragilis (Agassiz 1869)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Spatangoida
- family
- Maretiidae
- genus
- Homolampas
- species
- Homolampas fragilis
materials_examined
Reports for the Azores: non Homolampas fragilis (Agassiz) — A. H. Clark 1949: 376, 377. [misidentified A. atlantica] Type locality: Caribbean. See: Mortensen (1950: 266 – 272, pl. 7, figs. 5 – 6, pl. 13, figs. 5, pl. 25, figs. 1,4, 13, 15 – 18); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2012: 118). Occurrence: Western Atlantic, known only from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (Mortensen 1950). Depth: 550 – 3,550 m (Mortensen 1950). Habitat: infaunal, in soft bottoms (Pawson et al. 2009). Remarks: A. H. Clark (1949) reported this species from the Azores, based fragments of two medium-sized specimens retrieved by Atlantis, west of S „ o Miguel Island (cruise 152, sta 20: 37 ° 50 ’ 30 ” N, 26 ° 00 ’ 00 ” W, 2,562 m). Later, Serafy (1974) re-examined one of the specimens and assigned it to his newly described species, Araeolampas atlantica. The second specimen of H. L. Clark was not mentioned by Serafy, but it seems likely that this also was an Araeolampas, since H. fragilis does not reach a size larger than 35 mm (Serafy 1974) and confirmed records of H. fragilis are restricted to the West Atlantic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Homolampas fragilis (Agassiz 1869)