First record of basket stars Astrocyclus caecilia (Lütken, 1856) and Astrophyton muricatum (Lamarck, 1816) (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Euryalida) for the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil | Zendy

Anne Isabelley Gondim | Zendy; Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias | Zendy; Martín Lindsey Christoffersen | Zendy

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First record of basket stars Astrocyclus caecilia (Lütken, 1856) and Astrophyton muricatum (Lamarck, 1816) (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Euryalida) for the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil

Author(s) -

Anne Isabelley Gondim,

Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias,

Martín Lindsey Christoffersen

Publication year - 2015

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276

H-Index - 22

ISSN - 1809-127X

DOI - 10.15560/11.1.1541

Subject(s) - fauna , geography , fishing , continental shelf , archaeology , oceanography , fishery , paleontology , geology , ecology , biology

This paper reports the first record of Astrocyclus caecilia for northeastern Brazil and Astrophyton muricatum for the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The studied specimens were captured accidentally by a fisherman using a fishing rod at a depth below 100 m over the continental shelf of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Such accidental captures stress our meager knowledge on our fauna from the outer margin of the continental shelf in northeastern Brazil. With these records we fill a gap in the known distribution of those species.

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