The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)
Author
Madeira, Patrícia
Author
Kroh, Andreas
Author
Cordeiro, Ricardo
Author
De, António M.
Author
Martins, Frias
Author
Ávila, Sérgio P.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-19
4639
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1
231
journal article
26164
10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1
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Pentametrocrinus atlanticus
(
Perrier, 1883a
)
Reports for the
Azores
:
Eudiocrinus atlanticus
Perrier, 1883
a—
$
Koehler 1909: 271–274
, pl. 32, figs. 15–18;
Pentametrocrinus atlanticus
(
Perrier, 1883a
)
—
$
A.H. Clark & A.M.
Clark 1967: 790–794
;
$
Messing 1978: 699–708
, figs. 1–18; A.M.
Clark 1980: 203–204
;
Messing & Dearborn 1990: 26
, fig. 6;
García-Diez
et al
. 2005: 46
;
Type
locality:
North
of
Spain
(
44°01’20”N
,
7°04’45”W
)
.
See:
Perrier (1883a)
;
Koehler (1909)
;
Messing (1978)
.
Occurrence:
North Atlantic; in the western Atlantic reported from Florida and the Caribbean islands (
Messing 1978
); in the eastern Atlantic recorded from the Porcupine Bank (SW of
Ireland
) and from the Bay of Biscay south to
Western Sahara
, including the Azores and Canaries (A.H. Clark & A.M.
Clark 1967
; A.M.
Clark 1980
).
Depth:
374–
2,115 m
(
Messing & Dearborn 1990
);
AZO
:
1,165 m
(
Koehler 1909
).
Habitat:
soft substrates, fine sand to mud (A.H. Clark & A.M.
Clark 1967
); it can be found together with sponges, alcyonarians and azooxanthellate colonial scleractinians (
Messing & Dearborn 1990
).
Remarks:
Koehler (1909)
reported a single specimen belonging to
Pentametrocrinus atlanticus
(=
Eudiocrinus atlanticus
) among the material collected in the
Azores
by
Princesse Alice
(sta 578:
38°26’00”N
,
26°30’45”W
,
1,165 m
). Later, A.H. Clark & A.M.
Clark (1967)
and
Messing (1978)
re-examined the animal from the
Azores
and confirmed the historical identification by Koehler. It is possible that the crinoid observed by
Pérès (1992)
during a dive by the bathyscaphe
Archimède
west of Santa Maria at
700 m
depth, and described by the author as ‘crinoid of
Leptometra
type’ may have been this species (see remarks above under
Leptometra celtica
).