Published June 16, 2025
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Goniodiscaster insignis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Marine Biology, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Khorramshahr, Iran
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
- 3. Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran
- 4. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
- 5. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV 4 7 AL, UK
Description
Goniodiscaster insignis (Koehler, 1910): 66, pl. VIII, figs 5–6, pl. XIV, fig. 3
[As Goniodiscus insignis]
“Not recorded in present study.”
Previously reported from the Persian Gulf: (Koehler 1910; Mortensen 1940; Price 1982a).
Notes
Published as part of Pourvali, Naser, Aliabadi, Mohammad-Ali Salari, Salamat, Negin, Hesni, Majid Askari, Ranjbar, Mohammad Sharif, Carter, Hugh & Price, Andrew. R. G., 2025, Systematics, distribution and ecology of sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf and a revised identification key, pp. 201-234 in Zootaxa 5647 (3) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5647.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15819780
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Koehler
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Goniodiscaster
- Species
- insignis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Goniodiscaster insignis (Koehler, 1910) sec. Pourvali, Aliabadi, Salamat, Hesni, Ranjbar, Carter & Price, 2025
References
- Koehler, R. (1910) An account of the shallow-water Asteroidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Vol. Part 6., The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 199 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69298
- Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Vol. 2. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 137 pp.
- Price, A. R. G. (1982 a) Echinoderms of Saudi Arabia. Comparison between echinoderm faunas of Arabian Gulf, SE Arabia, Red Sea and Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 4, 3-21.