Ophiomyces frutectosus Lyman, 1869

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), Zootaxa 4639 (1), pp. 1-231 : 44

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Reports for the Azores:

Ophiomyces frutectosus Lyman, 1869 — $ Ljungman 1872: 621; Barrois 1888: 32; Mortensen 1927a: 183.

Type locality: off Sand Key (Florida) .

See: Lyman (1869: 345–347); Paterson (1985: 75, fig. 31).

Occurrence: Caribbean species ( Paterson 1985), also reported from southern Brazil ( Borges et al. 2002), Azores and Josephine Seamount ( Ljungman 1872).

Depth: 50– 1,098 m ( AZO: 585– 1,098 m; Borges et al. 2002, Ljugman 1872) .

Habitat: soft substrates ( Lyman 1883).

Remarks: on describing Ophiomyces frutectosus, Lyman (1869) remarked that he also found two specimens belonging to this species among the material collected by the Josephine cruise in the Josephine Seamount. Later, Ljungman (1872) reported material of this species collected in S„o Miguel Island (Azores) by Josephine, at depths (585– 1,098 m) well below the species’ normal bathymetrical range (141–527 m; Lyman 1869, 1883).

References

Barrois, T. (1888) Liste des Echinodermes recueillis aux Acores durant les mois d'Ao r t et September 1887. Revue Biologique du Nord de la France, 1, 31 - 33 + 69 - 75 + 109 - 115.

Borges, M., Monteiro, A. M. G. & Amaral, A. C. Z. (2002) Taxonomy of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the continental shelf and slope of the Southern and Southeastern Brazilian Coast. Biota Neotropica, 2 (2), 1 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032002000200010

Ljungman, A. V. (1872) F ˆ rteckning ˆ fver uti Vestindien af Dr A. Goes samt under korvetten Josefinas expedition i Atlantiska Oceanen samlade Ophiurider. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens F ˆ rhandlingar, 28 (5), 615 - 658. [1871]

Lyman, T. (1869) Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 1 (10), 309 - 354.

Lyman, T. (1883) Report on the Ophiuroidea. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea (1878 - 79), and on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer Blake , commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo ˆ logy at Harvard College, 10 (6), 227 - 287.

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

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.