Mediaster Stimpson 1857
Creators
Description
Mediaster Stimpson, 1857
Mediaster Stimpson 1857: 530; Perrier 1894: 377; Verrill 1899: 178; Fisher 1911: 196; Verrill 1914: 295; 1915: 108; Fisher 1919: 255; Macan 1938: 369; H. L. Clark 1946: 83; Bernasconi 1963: 11; Halpern 1970: 202; Clark & Downey 1992: 251. (as Mediaster)
Comments. Mediaster includes 18 nominal species (A.M. Clark 1993, Mah 2015b) which occur in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and is among the earliest genera of starfishes described from the Pacific coast of North America (Stimpson 1857). Fisher (1911) reviewed two species present from the North Pacific, M. aequalis and M. tenellus and discussed taxonomic relationships among Atlantic and Pacific species. Carey (1972) subsequently discovered “ Mediaster elegans ” (= Bathyceramaster careyi n. sp) from deep-sea settings off the coast of Oregon.
Fisher (1911) pointed out the absence of the stellate radiating base, a defining characteristic of the genus, in the tropical East Pacific “ Mediaster elegans " Ludwig 1905 but did not undertake a revision of the group. During the course of this investigation both “ Mediaster elegans ” Ludwig 1905 and the species described by Carey (1972) as “ M. elegans ” were both found to be lacking the diagnostic synapomorphy for Mediaster and have since been reassigned to the new genus Bathyceramaster n. gen. (as above).
Notes
Files
Files
(1.8 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:4cb965271e46d20daf43b98047c6a9b0
|
1.8 kB | Download |
System files
(15.6 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:cfcb96456ee0e5c1fd66e25af244b3ba
|
15.6 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/257286 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/690EFFC1FF8FFFE85C67FF96857BFFB8 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/B264C215-000D-42C5-8AC9-B801872CD182 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/953787B9FF9EFFF95CF0FA478622F84D (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Mediaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Stimpson
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mediaster Stimpson, 1857 sec. Mah, 2016
References
- Stimpson, W. (1857) On the Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific shores of North America. Boston Journal of Natural History, 6, 444, 532.
- Perrier, E. (1894) Stellerides. Expedition Scientifique Travailleur-Talismann, 3, 1 - 431.
- Verrill, A. E. (1899) Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10 (1), 145 - 234.
- Fisher, W. K. (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.
- Verrill, A. E. (1914) Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: US National Museum, 14, 1 - 408 pp.
- Fisher, W. K. (1919) Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3 (100), 1 - 547. 156 pls
- Macan, T. T. (1938) Asteroidea. British Museum of Natural History, John Murray Expedition 1933 - 34, Scientific Reports. Vo l. IV (9), 324 - 432.
- Clark, H. L. (1946) The Echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 566, 1 - 567.
- Bernasconi I. (1963) Asteroideos argentinos. 4. Familia Goniasteridae. Revista Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. Zoologia, 9 (1), 1 - 25, pls. 1 - 5.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London.
- Clark, A. M. (1993) An index of names of recent Asteroidea - Part 2: Valvatida. E chinoderm Studies, 4, 187 - 366.
- Mah, C. (2015 b) Mediaster Stimpson, 1857. In: Mah, C. L. (2015) World Asteroidea database. Available from: http: / www. marinespecies. org / Asteroidea / aphia. php? p = taxdetails & id = 123298 (accessed 16 April 2015)
- Carey, A. G. (1972) Food sources of sublittoral, bathyal and abyssal asteroids in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Ophelia, 10, 35 - 47.
- Ludwig, H. (1905) Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 32, 1 - 292.