Notes on ophiuroids from the Great Meteor Seamount (Northeastern Atlantic)

: 233-239The Great Meteor Seamount is a table mountain in the northeastern Atlantic, 1,700 km off Africa. Data on ophiuroids, collected with the RV Meteor during the cruises 9c (1967), 19 (1970) and 42/3 (1998), are summarized. The ophiuroid fauna is poor in number of species and abundance. Eight species were present in the samples dredged on the plateau and the adjacent slope, in depths of about 290-660 m,