Ophioplinthus inornata
Description
Ophioplinthus inornata (Lyman, 1878) Reports for the Azores:
Ophioglypha inornata Lyman, 1878 — $ Koehler 1906b: 262–263;
Homalophiura inornata (Lyman, 1878) — Mortensen 1927a: 231;
Ophiura inornata (Lyman, 1878) — $ A.H. Clark 1948: 78;
Ophiurolepis inornata (Lyman, 1878) — Paterson 1985: 138–139, fig. 53; Smirnov et al. 2014: 206.
Type locality: off S. Paulo Rocks (1°47’N, 24°26’W).
See: Lyman (1878: 97, pl. 2, figs. 26–27); Paterson (1985); Martynov & Litvinova (2008: 85–7, figs. 6G).
Occurrence: cosmopolitan, recorded in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic; in the Atlantic from South America, Falkland Islands, Caribbean, Saint Paul Rocks, eastwards to off Cape Blanc (NW Africa), including the Azores (Paterson 1985).
Depth: 242– 3,385 m (Lyman 1878, Mortensen 1936); AZO: 2,995 –3,200 m (Koehler 1906b, A.H. Clark 1948).
Habitat: soft sediments (Globigerina ooze; Lyman 1878).
Larval stage: non-brooding, direct or lecithotrophic development (Mortensen 1936).
Remarks: the presence of O. inornata in the Azores was first reported by Koehler (1906b; Talisman, sta 131, 1883: 38°28'N, 25°05'46"W, 2995 m). Later, A. H. Clark (1948) also identified material belonging to this species from the Azores, but referred to it as from west of Gibraltar (Atlantis sta 15: 35°37'N, 30°51' W; 3,200 m).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophiuridae
- Genus
- Ophioplinthus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lyman
- Species
- inornata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophioplinthus inornata (Lyman, 1878) sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019
References
- Lyman, T. (1878) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the " Challenger " expedition. Part I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 5 (7), 65 - 168.
- Koehler, R. (1906 b) Ophiures. Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman, 8, 245 - 311.
- Mortensen, T. (1927 a) Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Oxford University Press, viii + 471 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 6841
- Clark, A. H. (1948) Some interesting starfishes and brittle stars dredged by the Atlantis in mid-Atlantic. Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, 38, 75 - 78.
- Paterson, G. L. J. (1985) The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the North Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 49 (1), 1 - 162.
- Smirnov, I. S., Piepenburg, D., Ahearn, C. & Juterzenka, K. V. (2014) Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Ophiuroidea. Invertebrate Zoology, 11 (1), 192 - 209. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / invertzool. 11.1.18
- Martynov, A. V. & Litvinova, N. M. (2008) Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology Research, 4, 76 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000701840066
- Mortensen, T. (1936) Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports, 12, 199 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8051