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Hippasteria lepidonotus Fisher 1905

Description

Hippasteria lepidonotus (Fisher 1905)

Ludwig 1905: 138 (as Hippasteria pacifica)

Fisher 1905: 311;1911: 237; Lambert 1978a: 9; Maluf 1988: 34, 118; A.M. Clark 1993: 251; Mah et al., 2010; Hendrickx et al. 2011:800 (as C. lepidonotus)

Codoceo & Andrade 1978: 379 (as C. philippii)

Pawson & Ahearn 2001: 42 (as Cryptopeltaster cf. lepidonotus)

Comments. This was originally designated Cryptopeltaster Fisher 1905 before being reduced to the synonymy of Hippasteria by Mah et al. (2014). This species was observed feeding on gorgonians on Rodriquez and Davidson Seamount (Mah et al., 2010).

Occurrence. Chile, Galapagos, to Aleutian Islands (Alaska), including records from Rodriguez Seamount, Santa Cruz, California and British Columbia 188–1244 m.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2016, Deep-sea (> 1000 m) Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) from the North Pacific, including an overview of Sibogaster, Bathyceramaster n. gen. and three new species, pp. 101-141 in Zootaxa 4175 (2) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/257286

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Goniasteridae
Genus
Hippasteria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Fisher
Species
lepidonotus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hippasteria lepidonotus Fisher, 1905 sec. Mah, 2016

References

  • Fisher, W. K. (1905) New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 24, 291 - 320.
  • Ludwig, H. (1905) Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 32, 1 - 292.
  • Lambert, P. (1978 a) British Columbia Marine Faunistic Survey Report: Asteroids from the Northeast Pacific. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report, 773, 1 - 23.
  • Maluf, Y. (1988) Composition and distribution of the central eastern Pacific echinoderms. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Technical Reports, 2, 242 pp.
  • Clark, A. M. (1993) An index of names of recent Asteroidea - Part 2: Valvatida. E chinoderm Studies, 4, 187 - 366.
  • Mah, C. L., Nizinski, M. & Lundsten, L. (2010) Phylogenetic Revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): Systematics of Deep Sea Corallivores, including one new genus and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 160, 266 - 301, 11 figs.
  • Hendrickx, M., Mah, C. & Zarate, C-M. (2011) Deep-water Asteroidea (Echinodermata) collected during the slope cruises in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 82, 798 - 824.
  • Codoceo, M. R. & Andrade, H. (1978) Asterozoos arquibentonicos de Chile Central. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso 11, 153 - 174.
  • Pawson, D. L. & Ahearn, C. (2001) Bathyal echinoderms of the Galapagos Islands. Echinoderms 2000, New Zealand, M. Barker (Ed.) A. A. Balkema, Netherlands. 41 - 46.