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Myxoderma FISHER 1905

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MYXODERMA FISHER, 1905

Zoroaster (Myxoderma) Fisher, 1905: 316.

Myxoderma Fisher, 1919a: 389, 391; 1919b: 471; 1928: 44; Spencer & Wright, 1966: U75; Aziz & Jangoux, 1984: 193; Clark & Mah, 2001: 231.

Type species: Zoroaster (Myxoderma) sacculatus Fisher, 1905.

Diagnosis: Disc and arm skeleton reticulate. Plates cruciform, forming open papular fields. Primary spines present on all plates. Internal buttress present.

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Published as part of Mah, Christopher, 2007, Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features, pp. 177-210 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00291.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5430876

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
FISHER
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Forcipulatida
Family
Zoroasteridae
Genus
Myxoderma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Myxoderma FISHER, 1905 sec. Mah, 2007

References

  • Fisher WK. 1905. New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 24: 291 - 320.
  • Fisher WK. 1919 a. North Pacific Zoroasteridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 (a): 353 - 387.
  • Spencer WK, Wright CW. 1966. Asterozoans, Part U: Echinodermata. In: Moore RC, ed. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 3 (1): U 4 - U 107.
  • Aziz A, Jangoux M. 1984. Description de quatre nouvelles especes d'asterides profonds (Echinodermata) de la region Indo-Malaise. Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 187 - 194.
  • Clark AM, Mah C. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea- Part 4: Forcipulatida and Brisingida. Echinoderm Studies 6: 229 - 347.