Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from shallow-waters of the remote oceanic archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, southeastern Atlantic, with taxonomic and zoogeographical notes Author Cunha, Rosana Author Tavares, Marcos Author Jr, Joel Braga De Mendonça text Zootaxa 2020 2020-02-19 4742 1 31 56 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.1.2 28ac3eca-421e-4f15-a17e-c7b0fcda3304 1175-5326 3674443 273A157D-7738-4897-8D63-7D15C52A5B9F Ophidiaster alexandri Verrill, 1915 Ophidiaster alexandri Verrill, 1915: 91 , pl. 13, figs. 3–3b, pl. 25, fig. 2 [ type locality: off Georgia , viz. Clark & Downey, 1992 ]; Alvarado & Solis-Marin, 2013: 612 . Distribution. Georgia , Florida, Gulf of Mexico , Cuba , Windward Islands, Brazil (Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Martin Vaz Archipelago, Rio Grande do Sul ) ( Verrill, 1915 ; Clark, 1954; Tommasi, 1970 ; Carrera-Rodriguez & Tommasi, 1977 ; Clark & Downey, 1992 ; Ventura et al ., 2006 ; Alvarado & Solis-Marin, 2013 ). Depth range: 52–585 m ( Alvarado & Solis-Marin, 2013 ). Color in life. Brown with darker spots ( Tommasi, 1970 ). Habitats. Coral sand, and shells ( Verrill, 1915 ) and sand bottom ( Carrera-Rodriguez & Tommasi, 1977 ). Comments. Ventura et al. (2006) listed O. alexandri for Martin Vaz among the echinoderms amassed during the REVIZEE-Central Program (Evaluation of the Living Resources in the Brazilian Economic Exclusive Zone, sampling station C5-48R, 23°53’S– 45°26’W , 52 m . See also Lavrado, 2006 ). Surprisingly enough, O. alexandri was not integrated into the atlas of the fauna caught during the REVIZEE-Central Program. In Martin Vaz, that species occurred well beyond the depths of our typical SCUBA diving survey.