Solaster Forbes 1839
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Solaster Forbes 1839
Forbes 1839: 120; Gray 1840: 183; Danielssen & Koren 1882: 50; Sladen 1889: 452; Perrier 1894: 151; Acloque 1900: 256; Fisher 1911: 306; Hayashi 1939: 297; 1940: 174; Djakonov 1950: 65; Bernasconi 1964: 258, 1970: 249; Clark & Downey 1992: 301.
Diagnosis. Arms 7 to 17. Abactinal skeleton composed of close set cruciform or rounded plates (paxillae also referred to as pseudopaxillae) with non-penicillate spinelets. Papular pores single. Marginal plates paxillate, disproportionately sized with prominent inferomarginals, evenly spaced. Actinal plates spinose with multifid tips. Subambulacral spines forming distinct transverse fans. Furrow spines palmate, unwebbed.
Comments. Solaster includes 23 known species from all the world’s oceans, primarily from temperate to cold-water settings, ranging in depth from intertidal to 3120 m (Clark & Downey 1992, A.M. Clark 1996). The best-known Solaster species from shallow-water habitats in the North Pacific and North Atlantic are predators of megafaunal invertebrates, particularly echinoderms such as sea cucumbers and other sea stars (Jangoux 1982; Van Veldhuizen & Oakes 1981; Mauzey 1968).
Diversity in Solaster has been described primarily from the Pacific coast of North America and Asia (Fisher 1911; Hayashi 1939, 1940) as well as the North Atlantic (Clark & Downey 1992) and the sub-Antarctic (Clark 1962). Relatively few species of solasterids are known from deep-sea habitats in the central and tropical Pacific regions (e.g., Solaster tropicus Fisher 1919) with none recorded from the Hawaiian deep-sea region.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Solasteridae
- Genus
- Solaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forbes
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Solaster Forbes, 1839 sec. Mah, 2022
References
- Forbes, E. (1839) On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, 8, 114 - 129.
- Gray, J. E. (1840) XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1, 6 (36), 175 - 184. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484009443282
- Danielssen, D. C. & Koren, J. (1882) Fra den norske Nordhavsexpedition, Echinodermer. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, 27, 267 - 299.
- Sladen, W. P. (1889) Asteroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of H. M. S. Challenger, 30, 1 - 893.
- Perrier, E. (1894). Stellerides. Expeditions Scientifique Travailleur et du Talisman, 3, 1 - 431, 26 pls.
- Acloque, A. (1900) Faune de France contenant la description de toutes les especes indigenes-avec un preface par E. Perrier. Bailliere, Paris, 500 pp. [1899]
- Hayashi, R. (1939) Solasterids in Japanese waters. Journal of the Faculty of Science of Hokkaido University, 6 (3), 297 - 311.
- Hayashi, R. (1940) Contributions to the Classification of the sea-stars of Japan. I. Spinulosa. Journal of the Faculty of Imperial Science of Hokkaido University, 6 (7), 107 - 204.
- Djakonov, A. M. (1950) s. n. Morskie Zvezdy Morei SSSR Tableauxanalytiques de la faune de U. R. S. S., 34, 1 - 203. [translated as Dyakonov. A. M. 1968. Sea stars (Asteroids) of the USSR Seas. Keys to the Fauna of the USSR 34. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Ed.) By Strelkov, A. A., Israel Program for scientific translations Ltd., Jerusalem, 183 pp.]
- Bernasconi, I. (1964) Asteroideos argentinos. Claves para los ordenes, familias, subfamilies y generos. Physis Buenos Aires, 24, 241 - 277.
- Bernasconi, I. (1970) Equinodermos antarticos. 2. Asteroideos. 3. asteroides de la extremidad norte de la Peninsula Antartica. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Nacional de Investigation de las Ciencias naturales, 9, 211 - 281, 20 pls., 3 figs.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.
- Clark, A. M. (1996) An index of names of recent Asteroidea - Part 3: Velatida and Spinulosida. Echinoderm Studies, 5, 183 - 250.
- Jangoux, M. (1982) Food and feeding mechanisms: Asteroidea. In: Jangoux, M. & Lawrence, J. (Eds.), Echinoderm Nutrition Balkema, Rotterdam. pp. 117 - 159.
- Mauzey, K. P., Birkeland, C. & Dayton, P. K. (1968) Feeding behavior of asteroids and escape responses of their prey in the Puget Sound region. Ecology, 49, 603 - 619. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1935526
- Fisher, W. K. (1919) Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3 (100), 1 - 547, 156 pls.