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Myxoderma longispinum LUDWIG 1905

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MYXODERMA LONGISPINUM LUDWIG, 1905 COMB. NOV.

Zoroaster longispinum Ludwig, 1905: 180; Maluf, 1988: 44, 125; Clark & Mah, 2001: 234

Zoroaster perarmatus H.L. Clark, 1920: 102; Maluf, 1988: 45, 125, Clark & Mah, 2001: 235

Occurrence: Gulf of California S to Panama and the Galapagos, off N. Peru, 980–1571 m.

Material examined: Mexico. NMNH 34385 designated herein as LECTOTYPE. Concepcion Bay, Gulf of California. 26°48′N, 110°45′20″W, 1571 m. Coll. 22.iv.1891. (1 wet spec. R = 2.7, r = 0.5) NMNH E 9626. East of San Marcos, Baja California. 27°9′N, 111°42′W, 1567 m. Coll. 20.iii.1889. (1 wet spec. R = 3.4, r = 0.7) Peru: NMNH E4905 (HOLOTYPE for Z. perarmatus). Aguja Point, Peru, South Pacific. 5°47′S, 81°24′W, 980 m. Coll. 12.xi.1904. (1 dry spec. R = 9.8, r = 1.3 cm)

Notes

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

Collection code
R, NMNH
Material sample ID
NMNH 34385, E 9626, E4905
Event date
1889-03-20
Verbatim event date
1889-03-20/1904-11-12
Scientific name authorship
LUDWIG
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Forcipulatida
Family
Zoroasteridae
Genus
Myxoderma
Species
longispinum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Myxoderma longispinum LUDWIG, 1905 sec. Mah, 2007

References

  • Ludwig H. 1905. Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 32: 1 - 292.
  • Maluf Y. 1988. Composition and distribution of the central eastern Pacific echinoderms. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Technical Reports 2: 1 - 242.
  • Clark AM, Mah C. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea- Part 4: Forcipulatida and Brisingida. Echinoderm Studies 6: 229 - 347.
  • Clark HL. 1920. XXXII. Asteroidea. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Fish commission Steamer Albatross from October 1904 to March 1905. Lt. Cmdr. L. M. Garrett, USN commanding. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 39 (3): 75 - 113.