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Zoroaster fulgens Wyville Thomson 1873

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be

Description

longicauda Perrier, 1885, Zoroaster

Zoroaster longicauda Perrier, 1885: 19; 1894: 120, pl. 10, fig. 1a, b (as Prognaster longicauda).

Zoroaster fulgens ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 403.

CURRENT STATUS. — Zoroaster fulgens Wyville Thomson, 1873.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Atlantic Ocean • 3 syntypes; station 131; NE of the Azores; Talisman expedition; 1883; 38°38’N, 27°26’W; depth 2995 m; MNHN-IE-2014-275 • 2 syntypes; station 136; between Azores and Europe; same as for preceding; 44°20’N, 19°31’W; depth 4255 m; MNHN-IE-2014-270 • 2 syntypes; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-286.

Notes

Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 295, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wyville Thomson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Forcipulatida
Family
Zoroasteridae
Genus
Zoroaster
Species
fulgens
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Zoroaster fulgens Thomson, 1873 sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • PERRIER E. 1885. - Premiere note preliminaire sur les echinodermes recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marins du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des Sciences naturelles (6) 19 (8): 1 - 72.
  • PERRIER E. 1894. - Stellerides. Resultats des Expeditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman. G. Masson, Paris 3: 1 - 431.
  • CLARK A. M. & DOWNEY M. E. 1992. - Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 565 p.