Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b )

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 : 119

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1690E30-EC81-46D3-881D-97648DDC7745

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583333

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D212-0426-FFA5-FF33-FF2C74121442

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scientific name

Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b )
status

 

Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b) View in CoL View at ENA

Reports for the Azores:

Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b) View in CoL — Marques 1980: 104; $ Mironov 2006: 103.

Type locality: off the coast of Portugal .

See: Thomson (1872b: 741–744, pl. 63, figs. 9–10, pl. 66, figs. 1–5, pl. 67, figs. 1–9, as Calveria fenestrate ); Mortensen (1935: 233–237, pl. 29–30, pl. 78, fig. 11); Benavides-Serrato et al. (2012: 51–52).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Denmark Strait ( Mortensen 1903) to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico ( Benavides-Serrato et al. 2012), eastwards from off Scotland and the Rockall Trough ( Gage et al. 1985; Harvey et al. 1988) to Portugal ( Thomson 1872b), including the Azores and the Meteor Seamounts ( Mironov 2006).

Depth: 148– 1,270 m ( Mironov 2006); AZO :? 900 m (herein).

Habitat: soft sediments, on fine sand to mud ( Gage et al. 1985); gut contents include bottom sediments together with a variety of sponges and plant fragments ( Serafy & Fell 1985); feeds also on deep-sea reef building corals such as Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata ( Stevenson & Rocha 2012).

Larval stage: lecithotrophic ( Emlet 1995).

Remarks: it is likely that when Marques (1980) mentioned the presence of Araeosoma fenestratum in the Azores he was referring to unreported specimens collected by Biacores expedition in the archipelago. These specimens were mentioned by Mironov (2006) who noted that in the collection of MNHN Paris there are numerous Araeosoma taken in the Azorean waters by Jean Charcot (Biacores cruise, unreported) Cruise and mostly labelled by Vasco Marques as belonging to A. fenestratum . Additionally, the later author identified several specimens belonging to A. fenestratum in Meteor waters bordering the Azores. In 2009, during the expedition EMEPC-LUSO an echinothurid likely to belong to this species was captured on video on the seabed of the Azorean deep waters, north of S„o Jorge Island (38°42'18"N, 28°01'18"W, 900 m; Fig. 28 View FIGURE 28 A–B) and south of Pico Island (36°36'25"N, 28°06'43"W, 2009.10.21, 1,102 m; Fig. 28C View FIGURE 28 ).

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Echinoidea

Order

Echinothurioida

Family

Echinothuriidae

Genus

Araeosoma

Loc

Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b )

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P. 2019
2019
Loc

Araeosoma fenestratum ( Thomson, 1872b )

Mironov, A. N. 2006: 103
Marques, V. M. 1980: 104
1980
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