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Benthogone rosea Koehler 1896

Description

Benthogone rosea Koehler, 1896c Reports for the Azores:

Benthogone rosea Koehler, 1896 — $ Hérouard 1923: 38–39; Mortensen 1927a: 363–364, figs. 215–216; Grieg 1932: 5–6; Nobre 1938: 162–163; García-Diez et al. 2005: 51.

Type locality: Bay of Biscay.

See: Koehler (1896c: 114–117, figs. 2, 3, 36, 37); Hansen (1975: 48–49, fig. 15).

Occurrence: cosmopolitan; in the Atlantic from Ireland (Mortensen 1927a) south to Cape Verde, including the Azores, Madeira and Canaries (Hérouard 1923, Grieg 1932); recorded elsewhere off Kenya and north of New Zealand (Hansen 1975).

Depth: 450– 2,480 m (Cherbonnier 1970, Hansen 1975), common at about 2,000 m (Gage et al. 1985); AZO: 1,900 m (Hérouard 1923).

Habitat: epibenthic deposit-feeder on muddy sand to Globigerina ooze substrates (Hérouard 1923, Bisoll et al. 1984).

Larval stage: direct development (Tyler et al. 1985c).

Remarks: Hérouard (1923) identified the only known specimen from the Azores, collected by Princesse Alice (sta 1334: 39°30’N, 29°02’15”W, 1,900 m).

Notes

Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161

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