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ARMFÓTINGAR (BRACHIOPODA) í FØROYSKUM ØKI
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61°09'N, 7°54'W, 341 m (Wesenberg-Lund,
1940). ”Dana”: Stn 2969, 62°45'N, 6°44'W, 290
m; Stn 5840, 62°44'N, 6°06'W, 330 m (Wesen-
berg-Lund, 1940). "lngolf': Stn 1, 62°30'N,
8°21'W, 248 m (Wesenberg-Lund, 1941).
"Michael Sars”: Stn 45, 62°17'N, 4°57'W, 275 m;
Stn 58, 62°26'N, 4°49'W, 430 m; Stn 59, 62°38'N,
4°40'W, 670 m; Stn 63, 61°21'N, 5°12'W, 400 m;
Stn 64, 61°10'N, 5°46'W, 300 m (Wesenberg-
Lund, 1941). Expedition unknown: 61°16'N,
6°42'W, 282 m (Wesenberg-Lund, 1940).
Additional records: ”Diana61°40'N, 7°40'W, 254m.
”Guldborgsund’: 13 kvml west to south of
Munken; 9 kvml east-southeast of Bispen;
Akraleiti. "Margrethe": 61°35'N, 7°11'W.
BIOFAR stations: 116, 190, 205, 234, 269, 281, 283,
287, 288, 309, 311, 323, 332, 333, 344, 345, 349,
352, 353, 359, 364,400,401,454,472,473, 504,
506, 509, 514, 518, 520, 522, 528, 589, 599, 620,
621,716,747,760.
Areas: Around the Faroe Islands and the banks south-
west of the islands.
Depth range: 135-520 m (38 stns/93% 200-500 m).
Estimated average bottom temperature: 2.9-8.6°C (36
stns/88% > 6°C, 30 stns/75% > 7°C).
Water masses: AW (31 stns), AW/AI (9 stns), AI (1
stn).
Sediment: Most often sand (including shellsand),
gravel, cobbles and stones.
Substrate: Requires hard substrates e.g. pebbles and
shells of bivalves.
Atlantic distribution: The Canary Islands; south of
England; south, west and north of Ireland; west of
Scotland; Shetland; the Hebrides; the Faroes; Ice-
land; between Iceland and Greenland; west of Swe-
den; Norway; Spitsbergen (Wesenberg-Lund,
1941; Brunton and Curry, 1979).
Atlantic depth range: 15-165 m (most common), 183-
914 m (less frequent, max record 1484 m) (Brunton
and Curry, 1979).
Class ARTICULATA
Order RHYNCHONELLIDA
Family HEMITHYRIDIDAE
Genus Hemithiris d'Orbigny, 1847
Hemithiris psittacea (Gmelin, 1790) (Fig. 2)
Synonyms: ? Anomia rostrum psittaci Chemnitz
(1785); Anomia psittacea Gmelin (1790); Terebra-
tula psittacea Lyell (1842); Rhynchonella rostrum
psittaci Morch (1867); Rhynchonella psittacea
Davidson (1887); Rhynchonella psittacea Arndt
and Grieg (1933); Hemithyris psittacea Wesen-
berg-Lund, (1940, 1941).
Fig. I. Crania anomala