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ECHINODERMATA, ASTEROIDEAIN THE FAROE AREA

Family/Species Temperature °C Water Masses Depth ’ref. Depth
Measured Estimated (m) (m)
Echinasteridae Henricia perfortata 0.3-4.2 0-9.1 AW AW/AI AI AI/NW 80-923 80-650
Henricia Zoroasteridae pertusa -0.6 - 3.5 -0.9 - 8.7 AW AW/AI AI AI/NW NW 21-1,150
Zoroaster fulgens 6.7 AW/AI 914
Neomorphasteridae
Neomorphaster Pedicellasteridae marginatus 7.0 - 7.9 AW 700
Pedicellaster Asteridae typicus -0.1 -4.2 -0.1 -8.4 AW AW/AI AI AI/NW NW 235-1,022
Asterias rubens 7.6-9.1 AW 21-205 50-150
Leptasterias mulleri 2,8-6.5 2.8-8.2 AW AW/AI AI 50-500
Stephanasterias albula AI/NW 864
Stichastrella rosea 7.9-8.6 AW 252-700
Brisingidae Brisinga endecacnemos 2.0 - 7.9 AW AW/AI AI 656-700
Novodinia pandida 1.1- 5.5 1.1 -5.5 AW/AI AI AI/NW 790-900
found on the Faroe Plateau and on the slope
down to a 1,000 m depth, 14 of them pre-
ferring a slope depth between 300 and
1,000 m.
A summary of the records of the species
is given in Table 1.
Acknowledgements
Professor Ame Nørrevang is gratefully thanked for the
opportunity to study the Asteroidea collected during the
BioFar and BioFar 2 programmes, as is the staff of the
Kaldbak Marine Laboratory for their care in undertak-
ing the preliminary sorting of the samples. I want to
thank Torleiv Brattegard, Ole S. Tendal, Anne B. Klit-
gaard, Hákan Westerberg and many others for fruitful
co-operation both on the research vessels, Magnus
Heinason (Fiskirannsóknarstovan, Tórshavn) and
Hakon Mosby (University of Bergen), and in the Kald-
bak Marine Laboratory. This publication is part of a
M.Sc. thesis by Halldis Ringvold at the Norwegian Uni-
versity of Science and Technology (NTNU), 1996.
Contribution of the BioFar research programme.
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