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Zoroaster tenuis SLADEN 1889

Description

ZOROASTER TENUIS SLADEN, 1889

Zoroaster tenuis Sladen, 1889: 421; Koehler, 1907: 141; 1908: 566; Fisher, 1919b: 472; H.L. Clark, 1920: 101 (in key); A.M. Clark, 1962: 67; Clark & Mah, 2001: 234.

Occurrence: N. of New Guinea and Southern Ocean between Gough and Bouvet Islands, 3190– 1960 m.

Comments: Based on juvenile specimens. A likely synonym of Z. fulgens.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher, 2007, Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features, pp. 177-210 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00291.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5430876

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Zoroasteridae
Genus
Zoroaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Forcipulatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
SLADEN
Species
tenuis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Zoroaster tenuis SLADEN, 1889 sec. Mah, 2007

References

  • Sladen WP. 1889. Asteroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of H. M S Challenger 30: 1 - 893.
  • Koehler R. 1907. Asteries, Ophiures et Echinides recueillis dans les mers australes par la Scotia (1902 - 04). Zoologischer Anzeiger 32 (6): 140 - 147.
  • Fisher WK. 1919 b. Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 3 (100): 1 - 547, 156 plates.
  • Clark HL. 1920. XXXII. Asteroidea. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Fish commission Steamer Albatross from October 1904 to March 1905. Lt. Cmdr. L. M. Garrett, USN commanding. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 39 (3): 75 - 113.
  • Clark AM. 1962. Asteroidea. B. A. N. Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929 - 31 (B 9): 68 - 70.
  • Clark AM, Mah C. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea- Part 4: Forcipulatida and Brisingida. Echinoderm Studies 6: 229 - 347.