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Bathybiaster loripes subsp. obesus Sladen 1889

  • 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

liouvillei Koehler, 1912, Bathybiaster

Bathybiaster liouvellei Koehler, 1912: 158; 1912a: 96, pl. 6, figs 2, 4, 12, pl. 8, figs 5, 6.

Bathybiaster loripes obesus ‒ Clark 1989: 273.

CURRENT STATUS. — Bathybiaster loripes obesus Sladen, 1889.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • 2 syntypes; Pourquoi-Pas? expedition; 1908-1910, MNHN-IE-2014-180 • 2 syntypes; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-500 • 1 syntype, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-516.

REMARK

Koehler (1912a) reports twenty-one specimens from four localities in South Shetland: east of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 18 m); middle of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 420 m); west cove of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 75 m); dredging 18th (18 syntypes).

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 295, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Astropectinidae
Genus
Bathybiaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Paxillosida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Sladen
Species
obesus
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Bathybiaster loripes subsp. obesus Sladen, 1889 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. 1989. - An index of recent Asteroidea. Part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in JANGOUX M. & LAWRENCE J. M. (eds) Echinoderm Studies, vol. 3, Balkema, Rotterdam: 225 - 347.