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Calyptraster coa Sladen 1882

Description

Erroneous— Calyptraster coa Sladen, 1882 Reports for the Azores:

Calyptraster coa Sladen, 1882 — Walenkamp 1979: 64–72, figs. 19, 23–25, pl. 14, figs. 1–4.

Type locality: Pernambuco, Brazil (09°10’S, 34°50’W).

See: Sladen (1889: 489–491, pl. 78, figs. 1–2, pl. 79, figs. 1–3); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992: 308–309, figs. 49f, h, pl. 75, figs. A–B).

Occurrence: Western Atlantic, from the Bahamas and Florida south to Brazil (c. 09°S; Sladen 1889, Walenkamp 1979).

Depth: 260–993 m (A.M. Clark & Downey 1992).

Habitat: soft sediment (mud, Sladen 1889).

Remarks: see remarks under Calyptraster personatus.

Notes

Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sladen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Velatida
Family
Pterasteridae
Genus
Calyptraster
Species
coa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Calyptraster coa Sladen, 1882 sec. Madeira, Kroh, Cordeiro, De, Martins & Ávila, 2019

References

  • Sladen, W. P. (1882) The Asteroidea of H. M. S. Challenger Expedition. Part I, Pterasteridae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 16, 189 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1882. tb 02281. x
  • Walenkamp, J. H. C. (1979) Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the Guyana Shelf. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 170, 1 - 97.
  • Sladen, W. P. (1889) Report on the Asteroidea collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Challenger series of reports, Zoology, 30, 1 - 893.
  • Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Natural History Museum Publications. Chapman & Hall, London, 794 pp.