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ECHINODERMATA, ASTEROIDEA í FØROYSKUM ØKI
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Other records: Distributed commonly all around the
Faroes, specially in the fjords and bays (Lieberkind
1929).
Bathymetrical range within the area: 21-205 m, main-
ly between 50 and 150 m
Substrate: mud, sand and shells, stone
Temperature: 7.6° - 9.1°C (estimated)
Watermass: AW
World distribution: Circumboreal (D’yakonov 1950):
W. Atlantic: Labrador south to the Carolinas
(rarely to Florida); E. Atlantic: From the Arctic
south to Portugal (Clark and Downey 1992); Sene-
gal (Mortensen 1927). The species is also found
near Godthaab, Greenland (Lieberkind 1935).
World bathymetrical range: 0-900 m (in deeper water
south of Cape Cod)
Genus Leptasterias Verrill, 1866
Leptasterias miilleri (M. Sars, 1846)
(Map 12)
Synonyms: Asteracanthion miillen M. Sars 1846;
Leptasterias danica Levinsen 1886
Reference to best description of the species:
Mortensen (1927: 141-143, Fig. 80)
BioFar stations: 3 (3), 90 (2), 111 (6), 287 (2), 370
(13), 381 (5), 411 (1), 483 (1), 717 (1), 727 (1),
781 (5)
BioFar 2 stations: 1030 (2), 1031 (2), 1037 (1), 1038
(1), 1190(1)
Other records: Faroe-Shetland Channel (Bell 1892);
Common all around the Faroes from the littoral
zone down to a 150 m depth (Lieberkind 1929).
Bathymetrical range within the area: 50 - 500 m
Substrate: shell-sand, gravel, stones
Temperature: 2.8° - 6.5°C (measured); estimated: 2.8°
- 8.2°C
Map 11. Records of Asterias rubens L. in the Faroe region.
Kort 11. Skrásetingar av Asterias rubens L. í føroyskum øki.