Asteronyx loveni Muller & Troschel 1842
- 1. Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, 57200 Sanya, China. & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
- 2. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 3. Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, 57200 Sanya, China.
Description
Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842
Figs 2–3
Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842: 119–120, pl. 10 figs 3–5.
Ophiuropsis lymani Studer, 1884: 55–46, pl. 5 fig. 12a–d.
Asteronyx dispar Lütken & Mortensen, 1889: 185, pls 21–22.
Asteronyx locardi Koehler, 1895: 470–471, fig. 10.
Asteronyx cooperi Bell, 1909: 22.
Ophiuraster patersoni Litvinova, 1998: 441–444, fig. 3.
Asteronyx loveni – Döderlein 1927: 59, 97, pl. 7 figs 7–8. — Baker 1980: 12, 16–18, figs 2–3. — Liao & Clark 1995: 165–166, fig. 71. — McKnight 2000: 8, 13–15, pl. 1. — Olbers et al. 2019: 49–50, fig. 23.
Ophiuraster patersoni – Stöhr 2005: 545–546, fig. 1.
Material examinedCHINA • 1 spec.; South China Sea, SE of Hainan Island, seamount; 18°31.76′ N, 112°40.56′ E; depth 1167 m; 27 Jun. 2019; collection event: stn SC002; MSV Shenhaiyongshi leg.; preserved in -80°C; GenBank: MZ 198756, MZ 203264; IDSSE EEB-SW0002.
RemarksDisc diameter 11 mm and collected attached to a gorgonian species. Our specimen is similar to the holotype description by Müller & Troschel (1842) and later published descriptions (Baker 1980; McKnight 2000; Olbers et al. 2019) (Fig. 2). Vertebrae with a streptospondylous articulation and the lateral arm plate bears four to five spine articulations, which lack a separate nerve opening (Fig. 3). Species of Asteronyx are usually found on mud and sand, associated with gorgonians and pennatulids. In 1959 and from 1976 to 1981, 52 specimens of A. loveni were collected from the East and South China seas, at depths of 510–1100 m. Asteronyx loveni was first reported from the South China Sea by Chang et al. (1962).
Distribution62–4721 m depth. Global, except Arctic and Antarctic (Olbers et al. 2019; OBIS 2021).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MZ, IDSSE
- Event date
- 2019-06-27
- Family
- Asteronychidae
- Genus
- Asteronyx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- EEB-SW0002
- Order
- Euryalida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Troschel
- Species
- loveni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-06-27
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asteronyx loveni Muller, 1842 sec. Nethupul, Stöhr & Zhang, 2022
References
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- Chang F. Y., Liao Y. L. & Wu B. L. 1962. Euryaliae of the China Sea. Acta Zoologica Sinica 14: 53 - 68.
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