Hymenaster giboryi Perrier, 1894

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 : 59

Hymenaster giboryi Perrier, 1894

Reports for the Azores:

Hymenaster giboryi Perrier, 1894 — $ Koehler 1909: 93, pl. 1, figs. 2–3; Mortensen 1927a: 106; Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972: 381–382; Sibuet 1976: 298; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 316–317 figs. 51f–h; García-Diez et al. 2005: 47; Dilman 2014: 35.

Type locality: between the Azores and Portugal (42°19’00”N, 21°15’46”W) .

See: Perrier (1894: 189–190, pl. 14, fig. 1); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, from off Newfoundland ( Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972), southwards to off Jamaica (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992) and eastwards to Rockall Trough ( Cherbonnier & Sibuet 1972) and to waters between Azores and Iberian Peninsula ( Koehler 1909).

Depth: 1,919–4,275 m ( AZO: 1,919–4,261 m; Koehler 1909) .

Habitat: soft substrates, mud or Globigerina ooze ( Koehler 1909).

Remarks: Hymenaster giboryi is known only from a few specimens collected at discrete locations throughout the North Atlantic.