Ophiomitrella clavigera ( Ljungman, 1865 )

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 : 164

Erroneous— Ophiomitrella clavigera ( Ljungman, 1865)

Reports for the Azores:

non Ophiomitrella clavigera (Ljungman, 1864) — Mortensen 1927a: 186–187, fig. 103 [based on invalid synonymy]; Marques 1980: 102 [based on Mortensen 1927a]; Paterson 1985: 71, fig. 28 [based on Mortensen 1927a]; Harvey et al. 1988: 170 [based on Paterson 1985]; García-Diez et al. 2005: 49 [based on Mortensen 1927a].

Type locality: Norway .

See: Mortensen (1933a: 39–41, fig. 23); Paterson (1985).

Occurrence: North Atlantic, in the west from the Northern American coasts to Greenland and in the east from Iceland and Scandinavia to the British waters ( Mortensen 1933a, Paterson 1985).

Depth: 166– 1,952 m ( Paterson 1985, Harvey et al. 1988).

Habitat: coral epibiont and also known from muddy sand ( Farran 1913).

Larval stage: brooding, protandric hermaphrodite ( Mortensen 1920).

Remarks: Ophiomitrella clavigera was included in the Azorean fauna based on the erroneous assumption that O. cordifera was conspecific with this species (for details see remarks under Ophiomitrella cordifera ).