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Lophaster Verrill 1878

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Description

Lophaster Verrill, 1878

Verrill, 1878: 214; Danielssen & Koren 1882: 440; Sladen 1889: 460; Ludwig 1900: 467; Fisher 1911: 334; Koehler 1921: 143; Djakonov 1950: 63; H.E.S. Clark 1963: 61; Bernasconi 1964: 258; Clark & Downey 1992: 299.

Sarkaster Ludwig, 1905: 185.

Diagnosis

Arms five, cylindrical in cross-section, interradial arcs acute. Abactinal skeleton reticulate, papular areas with multiple pores. Abactinal plates paxillate. Marginal plates in two series, composed of distinct paxillae, larger than adjacent abactinal plates. One series of actinal plates, extending along arm in most species.

Comments

The re-discovery of Lophaster abbreviatus Koehler, 1908 brings the total number of high-latitude Lophaster species to four (A.M. Clark 1962) including L. gaini Koehler, 1912b, L. stellans Sladen, 1889 (with the subspecies L. stellans marionis), and L. tenuis Koehler, 1920.

Three species have now been recorded from the North Pacific, off the coast of Japan (Mah & Fujita 2020).

Mah and Foltz (2011b) sampled several high-latitude Solasteridae, from both hemispheres including what is nominally Lophaster densus Fisher, 1940. Their results placed this species among members of the genus Paralophaster. It is herein reassigned, but further sampling and testing are desirable.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2023, New Genera, Species, and observations on the biology of Antarctic Valvatida (Asteroidea), pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5310 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8090240

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387E86603FFD1FF68E6A68259FBD6

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/8090240 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFAFF906631FFE3FFFFE7588613FFBB (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C387E86603FFD1FF68E6A68259FBD6 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/210479597 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55246/taxon/03C387E86603FFD1FF68E6A68259FBD6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Solasteridae
Genus
Lophaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Verrill
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lophaster Verrill, 1878 sec. Mah, 2023

References

  • Verrill, A. E. (1878) Art. XX. Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America. No. 1. American Journal of Science and Arts, Series 3, 16, 91 - 96 + 207 - 215. https: // doi. org / 10.2475 / ajs. s 3 - 16.93.207
  • 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.
  • Ludwig, H. (1900) Arktische Seesterne. Fauna Arctica, 1 (3), 447 - 502.
  • Fisher, W. K. (1911) Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the US National Museum, 76 (xiii), 1 - 420. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.76. i
  • Koehler, R. (1921) Echinodermes. Faune de France. Vol. 1. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences, Paris, 216 pp.
  • Djakonov, A. M. (1950) Morskie Zvezdy Morei SSSR T U, 34, 1 - 203. [translated as Dyakonov, A. M. (1968) s. n. In: Strelkov, A. A. (Ed.), Sea stars (Asteroids) of the USSR Seas. Keys to the Fauna of the USSR. Vol. 34. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Israel Program for scientific translations Ltd., Jerusalem, pp. 1 - 183.]
  • Clark, H. E. S. (1963) The Fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 3. Asteroidea. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin, 151, 1 - 84.
  • Bernasconi I. (1964) Asteroideos argentinos. Claves para los ordenes, familias, subfamilies y generos. Physis Buenos Aires, 24, 241 - 277.
  • Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.
  • Ludwig, H. (1905) Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 32, vii - xii, 292 pp., pls.
  • Koehler, R. (1908) Asteries, Ophiures et Echinides de l'Expedition antarctique nationale ecossaise. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 46, 529 - 649. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 008045680000380 X
  • Clark, A. M. (1962) Asteroidea. B. A. N. Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929 - 1931, B 9, 68 - 70.
  • Koehler, R. (1912 b) Echinoderms nouveaux recueillis dans les mers antarctiques par le " Pourquoi Pas? " (Asterias, Ophiures et Echinides). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 39 (4), 151 - 163.
  • Koehler, R. (1920) Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition, C 8, 1 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 85380
  • Mah, C. & Fujita, T. (2020) New species and occurrence records of Japanese Solasteridae and Ganeriidae including a new species of Paralophaster from the North Pacific with an overview of Hyalinothrix. Zootaxa, 4750 (1), 67 - 100. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4750.1.4
  • Mah, C. L. & Foltz D. W. (2011 b) Molecular Phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 161, 769 - 788. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.2010.00659. x
  • Fisher, W. K. (1940) Asteroidea. Discovery Reports, 20, 69 - 306.