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Enigmaster McKnight & H.E.S. Clark 1996

Description

Enigmaster McKnight & H.E.S. Clark, 1996

H.E.S. Clark and McKnight, 1996: 205, 2001: 45

Diagnosis. Disk weakly pentagonal with marginal series arranged into unusual hastate (i.e., arrow-shaped) formation near arm-tips. Interradial marginal plates small, jumbled. Abactinal plates covered by granules. Two types of pedicellariae, one with slender, tapering blades and broad, fan-like blades present.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2011, Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa, pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2759 on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Goniasteridae
Genus
Enigmaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Valvatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
McKnight & H.E.S. Clark
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Enigmaster McKnight, 1996 sec. Mah, 2011

References

  • McKnight, D. G. & Clark, H. E. S. (1996) Enigmaster scalaris, n. gen., n. sp., a puzzling sea-star (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) from the Auckland Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 26 (2), 205 - 214.