Lopholithodes, BRANDT, 1848

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GENUS LOPHOLITHODES BRANDT, 1848 LOPHOLITHODES FORAMINATUS ( STIMPSON, 1859)

Type locality: eastern Pacific Ocean, United States, off California, near San Francisco ; depth not provided .

Known range: North of Banks Island, British Columbia, to San Diego , California, and from the intertidal to 547 m ( Hart, 1982) .

Occurrence at vents or seeps: not known at any active vent or seep sites (but see below).

Material: type locality; type material presumably deposited at CAS and destroyed in 1906 earthquake and fire; no known material has been collected from vents or seeps. For occurrences (some only tentatively suggested), see Suess et al. (1985), Carey et al. (1988) and Chevaldonné & Olu (1996).

Remarks: Stimpson (1859) described this species as Echidnocerus foraminatus and noted that several specimens had been collected off the coast of California, near San Francisco; there was no mention of the depth from which the original specimens had been collected. Carey et al. (1988) noted large aggregations of this species at extinct seep areas in the upper Oregon subduction zone at approximately 250 m depth. According to Chevaldonné & Olu (1996), there is a possibility that this is the species observed and illustrated by Suess et al. (1985) at far greater depths (2037 m) at active (extant) cold seeps, which is why we have included it here.