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Sphaeriodiscus Fisher 1910
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Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910
Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910: 171; 1911: 167; Tortonese & A.M. Clark, 1956: 343; Halpern, 1970b: 79; A.M. Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 249; Downey in Clark & Downey, 1992: 265; H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 133.
Diagnosis. Body pentagonal. Abactinal plates weakly tabulate, covered by evenly distributed granules. Marginal plates few, tumid with swollen or enlarged penultimates. Pedicellariae spatulate.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.276783 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Sphaeriodiscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Fisher
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910 sec. Mah, 2011
References
- Fisher, W. K. (1910) New genera of starfishes. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History, 5 (8), 171 - 173.
- Tortonese, E. & Clark, A. M. (1956) On the generic position of the asteroid Goniodiscus placenta Muller and Troschel. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History, 12 (9), 347 - 352.
- Halpern, J. A. (1970 b) A monographic revision of the goniasterid sea stars of the North Atlantic. Unpublished PhD dissertation: University of Miami, 253 pp.
- Clark, A. M. (1976) Asterozoa from Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands, Southern Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, 30 (6), 247 - 261, 6 pls.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.
- Clark, H. E. S. & McKnight, D. G. (2001) The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars), Order Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 117, 1 - 270.