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Pillsburiaster Halpern 1970
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Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970
Halpern, 1970a: 2; McKnight, 1973: 180; Downey in Clark & Downey, 1992: 258; McKnight, 2001: 102 (key).
Diagnosis. Body pentagonal in most species, weakly stellate in some. Abactinal plates weakly tabulate. Abactinal surface densely covered by coarse, hemispherical granules obscuring plate boundaries.
Comments. Pillsburiaster was initially described from the tropical Atlantic but the majority of species occur in the South Pacific/Indo-Pacific region.
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 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.276783 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Pillsburiaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Halpern
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970 sec. Mah, 2011
References
- Halpern, J. A. (1970 a) Biological investigations of the deep sea. 53. New species and genera of goniasterid sea stars. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83 (1), 1 - 12.
- McKnight, D. G. (1973) Additions to the asteroid fauna of New Zealand: Family Goniasteridae. NZOI Records, 1 (13), 171 - 195.
- Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.
- Clark, H. E. S. & McKnight, D. G. (2001) The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars), Order Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 117, 1 - 270.