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Hippasteria mammifera Djakonov 1950

Description

HIPPASTERIA MAMMIFERA DJAKONOV, 1950

Djakonov, 1950: 54 (1968: 45), 1952: 409.

Occurrence: Okhotsk Sea. 97 m.

Comments: This species was described by Djakonov (1950) as a separate species based on extremely swollen and hemispherical marginal and abactinal plates. This character is plesiomorphic to H. spinosa (and to a certain extent, H. phrygiana), which undermines the distinctiveness of this species and further lends support to its synonymy with H. spinosa.

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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References

  • Djakonov AM. 1950. Sea stars (asteroids) of the USSR seas. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR Moskva-Leningrad 34: 1 - 203.
  • 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.