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Hippasteria leiopelta Fisher 1910

Description

HIPPASTERIA LEIOPELTA FISHER, 1910

(with formae aculeata and longimana Djakonov, 1950)

Fisher, 1910: 553; 1911: 227; Djakonov, 1950: 56 (1968: 47); 1952: 413.

Occurrence: Southern Bering Sea, Okhotsk Sea, Tartar Strait, and Aniva Bay off the south-east coast of Kamchatka. 35–418 m.

Material examined: None.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on page 286, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114738

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Goniasteridae
Genus
Hippasteria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Fisher
Species
leiopelta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hippasteria leiopelta Fisher, 1910 sec. Mah, Nizinski & Lundsten, 2010

References

  • Fisher WK. 1910. New genera of starfishes. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 5: 171 - 173.
  • Djakonov AM. 1950. Sea stars (asteroids) of the USSR seas. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR Moskva-Leningrad 34: 1 - 203.
  • Fisher WK. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the US National Museum 76: xiii + 420 pp. 122 pls.
  • Djakonov AM. [Translated as Dyakonov] 1968. Sea stars (asteroids) of the USSR seas. In: Strelkov AA, ed. Keys to the fauna of the USSR 34. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Jerusalem: Israel Program for scientific translations Ltd. 183 pp.