Ophiophrixus spinosus (Storm 1881)
- Dataset
- The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiurida
- family
- Ophiomyxidae
- genus
- Ophiophrixus
- species
- Ophiophrixus spinosus
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Reports for the Azores:
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Type locality: Norway. See: Mortensen (1927 a: 171 – 172, figs. 96 – 97); Paterson (1985). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic, from the Denmark Strait and off SE of Iceland to off NW African waters (Koehler 1906 b, Mortensen 1933 a). Depth: 40 – 1,383 m (Harvey et al. 1988). Habitat: soft bottoms, sand, mud to ooze (Farran 1913). Larval stage: viviparous (Kasyanov et al. 1998). Remarks: Koehler (1906 b) reported Ophiophrixus spinosus (as Ophiobyrsa hystricis) from off the coast of Morocco (Talisman, sta 20, 1883: 33 ° 43 ’ N, 9 ° 01 ’ 46 ″ W, 1,105 m), a species previously known from Icelandic and Scandinavian waters. Mortensen (1927 a) referred to this record as between Madeira and NW Africa, which later changed to ‘ off Madeira’ (Mortensen 1933 a). Paterson (1985) placed the southern limit of this species not in Morocco or Madeira, but in the Azores, which is clearly a mistake, that was repeated in subsequent literature.
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiophrixus spinosus (Storm 1881)