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Pythonaster Sladen 1889

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Pythonaster Sladen 1889

Sladen 1889: 532; Fisher 1911: 253; 1919: 454; Verrill 1914: 204; A.H. Clark 1948: 76; Madsen 1951: 90; Alton 1966: 688; Downey 1979: 70

Species: P. atlantidis A.H. Clark 1948, P. murrayi Sladen 1889, P. pacificus Downey 1979.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., Mercier, Annie, Hamel, Jean-Francois & Nizinski, Martha, 2012, Range Extensions and Taxonomic Notes on Atlantic Myxasteridae (Velatida; Asteroidea), pp. 55-62 in Zootaxa 3572 on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210332

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Biodiversity

Family
Myxasteridae
Genus
Pythonaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Velatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Sladen
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pythonaster Sladen, 1889 sec. Mah, Mercier, Hamel & Nizinski, 2012

References

  • Sladen WP. (1889) Asteroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of H. M. S. Challenger, 30, 1 - 893.
  • Fisher, W. K. (1911) Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosa. Bulletin of the US National Museum, 76, xiii + 42 pp.
  • 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.
  • Clark, A. H. (1948) Some interesting starfishes and brittle-stars dredged by the Atlantis in mid-Atlantic. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science, 38, 75 - 58.
  • Madsen, F. J. (1951) Asteroidea. Reports of the Swedish Deep-sea Expedition, 2 (6), 73 - 92.
  • Alton, M. S. (1966) A new sea-star from the northeastern Pacific Ocean, Asthenactis fisheri n. sp., with a review of the family Myxasteridae. Deep-Sea Research, 13 (4), 687 - 697.
  • Downey, M. E. (1979) Pythonaster pacificus n. sp., a new starfish of the family Myxasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 92, 70 - 74.