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Laetmaster Fisher 1908
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Description
Laetmaster Fisher 1908
Fisher 1908: 88
Diagnosis
Body stellate, Rr=2.7. Arms six, slender, disc large, flat, interbrachial arcs rounded. Abactinal surface covered by small subpaxillate plates, each with spinelets, 2 to 4. Distinct bare interradial space present with a prominent madreporite present in one bare interradius. Marginal plates composed of a large, single paxillae, widely spaced, each with pointed spines, 5 to 6, directed outward, spines perpendicular to the plane of the disc. Adambulacral furrow spines 4 to 5, parallel to furrow, subambulacral spines small. Modified from Clark & Downey (1992).
Notes
Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2024, Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic, pp. 461-508 in Zootaxa 5432 (4) on page 497, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10910698
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fisher
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Solasteridae
- Genus
- Laetmaster
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Laetmaster Fisher, 1908 sec. Mah, 2024
References
- Fisher, W. K. (1908) Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous collections (Quarterly), 52, 87 - 93.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.