Araeolampas atlantica Serafy, 1974

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 : 125-126

Araeolampas atlantica Serafy, 1974

Reports for the Azores:

non Homolampas fragilis ( Agassiz, 1869) — $ A.H. Clark 1949: 376 [misidentified];

Araeolampas atlantica $ Serafy, 1974: 44–46 , figs. 1a–c, 2a–b; Mironov 2014: 127.

Type locality: off Virginia (37°50’N, 73°04’W) .

See: Serafy (1974); Mironov (2008).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the west from off Virginia to north of Haiti, in the east from north of the Azores to off Gabon ( Serafy 1974, Mironov 2008).

Depth: 1,920–3,595 m ( AZO: 2,585 m; Serafy 1974). Habitat: probable endobenthic in soft substrata. Remarks: the presence of Araeolampas atlantica in the archipelago is based on the material collected by Atlantis cruise west of S„o Miguel Island, firstly identified by A.H. Clark (1949) as Homolampas fragilis ( Agassiz, 1869 ) and then reassigned to Araeolampas atlantica by Serafy (1974) upon re-examination.