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Sphaeriodiscus Fisher 1910

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Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910

Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910: 171; 1911: 167; Tortonese & A.M. Clark, 1956: 343; Halpern, 1970b: 79; A.M. Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 249; Downey in Clark & Downey, 1992: 265; H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 133.

Diagnosis. Body pentagonal. Abactinal plates weakly tabulate, covered by evenly distributed granules. Marginal plates few, tumid with swollen or enlarged penultimates. Pedicellariae spatulate.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2011, Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa, pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2759 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783

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Biodiversity

Family
Goniasteridae
Genus
Sphaeriodiscus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Fisher
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Sphaeriodiscus Fisher, 1910 sec. Mah, 2011

References

  • Fisher, W. K. (1910) New genera of starfishes. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History, 5 (8), 171 - 173.
  • Tortonese, E. & Clark, A. M. (1956) On the generic position of the asteroid Goniodiscus placenta Muller and Troschel. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History, 12 (9), 347 - 352.
  • Halpern, J. A. (1970 b) A monographic revision of the goniasterid sea stars of the North Atlantic. Unpublished PhD dissertation: University of Miami, 253 pp.
  • Clark, A. M. (1976) Asterozoa from Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands, Southern Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, 30 (6), 247 - 261, 6 pls.
  • Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.
  • Clark, H. E. S. & McKnight, D. G. (2001) The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars), Order Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 117, 1 - 270.