Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1898

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 : 157

Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1898

Reports for the Azores:

Benthothuria funebris Perrier, 1899 — $ Gebruk 2008: 50, 51.

Type locality: off Cape Blanc, NW Africa .

See: Perrier (1902: 365–371); Rogacheva et al. (2013: 591, figs. 17B, 19B).

Occurrence: East Atlantic, from Greenland eastwards from the Rockall Trough ( Gage et al. 1985) south to Angola ( Jones et al. 2014), including the Azores ( Gebruk 2008).

Depth: 782– 3,757 m ( Rogacheva et al. 2013); AZO: 2,954 –2,968 m ( Gebruk 2008).

Habitat: soft sediment, from mud to sand (with shells and corals; Perrier 1902); may be able to swim ( Rogacheva et al. 2013).

Remarks: Recently, Gebruk (2008) identified the species B. funebris among material collected at the north border of the Azorean EEZ (G.O. Sars, MAR–ECO cruise, sta 40/367: 42°55’N, 30°20’W, 2,954 –2,968 m).