Peripatagus cinctus Koehler, 1895b

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 : 129-130

Peripatagus cinctus Koehler, 1895b

Reports for the Azores:

Peripatagus cinctus $ Koehler, 1895b: 231–233, 1909: 248–251 , pl. 31, figs. 6–18; Mortensen 1927a: 322, 1950: 306; García- Diez et al. 2005: 51; Mironov 2006: 119.

Type locality: Azores (38°47’40”N, 28°17’05”W) .

See: Koehler (1895b, 1909); Mironov (2006).

Occurrence: cosmopolitan, scattered records from both East Atlantic and Pacific water; in the Atlantic reported from the Azores ( Koehler 1909) and the seamounts of Atlantis (Meteor) , Tropic (off NW Africa), Zubov and Valdivia (Walvis Ridge, off the coast of Namibia); also reported from a seamount located north of St. Helena (11°37’S, 5°12’W; Mironov 2006).

Depth: 290– 1,494 m ( Koehler 1909, Mironov 2006); AZO: 880– 1,494 m ( Koehler 1909).

Habitat: sand and rock ( Koehler 1909).

Remarks: the geographical distribution of this Peripatagus cinctus in the Atlantic is presently restricted to oceanic systems. Firstly described for the Azores by Koehler (1895b; Princesse Alice, sta 616: 38°47’40”N, 28°17’05”W, 1,022 m) this species was then later reported from several oceanic seamounts.