Published June 3, 2022 | Version v1
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Paralophaster antarcticus

  • 1. Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be

Description

antarcticus Koehler, 1912, Lophaster

Lophaster antarcticus Koehler, 1912: 154; 1912a: 46, pl. 3, figs 4, 5.

Paralophaster antarcticus ‒ Clark 1996: 189.

CURRENT STATUS. — Paralophaster antarcticus (Koehler, 1912).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • 2 syntypes; Pourquoi-Pas? expedition (1908-1910); MNHN-IE-2014-465 • 2 syntypes; same as the preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-150.

REMARK

Koehler (1912a) reported four individuals from three different stations: dredging VI (entrance of Marguerite Bay, 67°43’S, 70°45’W, 254 m); dredging VII (68°34’S, 72°05’W, near Alexandre 1 st Land, 250 m); dredging X (68°35’S, 72°40’W, near Alexandre 1 st Land, 297 m).

Notes

Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 266, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Solasteridae
Genus
Paralophaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Koehler
Species
antarcticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paralophaster antarcticus (Koehler, 1912) sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • KOEHLER R. 1912 a. - Echinodermes nouveaux recueillis dans les mers antarctiques par le Pourquoi Pas? Zoologischer Anzeiger 39: 151 - 163.
  • CLARK A. M. 1996. - An index of recent Asteroidea. Part 3: Velatida and Spinulosida, in JANGOUX M. & LAWRENCE J. M. (eds) Echinoderm Studies, vol. 5: 183 - 250. Balkema, Rotterdam.