Ophiacantha smitti Ljungman 1872

Ophiacantha smitti Ljungman, 1872 Reports for the Azores: Ophiacantha smitti Ljungman, 1872 — $ St̂hr & Segonzac 2005: 286. Type locality: Portugal (38°10’N, 9°25’W). See: Ljungman (1872: 621–622); Paterson (1985: 46–47, fig. 20). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Bay of Biscay south to off Western Sahara (Paterson 1985, Bartsch 1987), including the Azores (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005) and Madeira (Jesus & Abreu 1998); also off Bermuda (Lyman 1882). Depth: 75– 2,282 m (Jesus & Abreu 1998, Paterson 1985); AZO: 1,550 m (St̂hr & Segonzac 2005). Habitat: soft bottoms, muddy sand (Jesus & Fonseca 1999) to grey ooze (Lyman 1882). Remarks: Ophiacantha smitti, a species known from both sides of the Atlantic, is one of the more recent additions to the deep-water echinoderm fauna from the Azores, identify by St̂hr & Segonzac (2005) in a non-vent area near Lucky Strike (L’Atalante, Victor 1ère cruise, sta PL 33: 37°15’45”N, 32°13’30”W, 1,550 m).
Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161
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