Kampylaster , Koehler 1920 ...

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Waters, Jonathan M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Asterinidae; Kampylaster; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10870642; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10870642

Kampylaster Koehler Kampylaster Koehler, 1920: 136–137.— Fisher, 1940: 250–252.— Bernasconi, 1973: 344.—A.M. Clark, 1993: 220. Diagnosis. Rays 5; body small, frequently arched, abactinally covered by integument and subgranular spinelets; rays 5, short petaloid; abactinal plates thin, not notched, irregular arrangement; actinal plates in oblique series; actinal spines per plate few, subglobose; lacking superambulacral and superactinal plates; abactinal and actinal distal interradial plates lacking contiguous internal projections. Type species. Kampylaster incurvatus Koehler, 1920 (original designation). Material examined. K. incurvatus. Syntypes. Antarctica, Adelie Land, AM J 3581 (2, A and B). Description. Rays 5, petaloid to tapered from wide base; margin incurved and subacute interradially; body variably arched; size small, up to R = 15 mm; lacking pedicellariae; brood-protects under body. Abactinal plates obscured by integument and close uniform cover of coarse subgranular spinelets; abactinal plates on ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark & Waters, Jonathan M., 2004, A molecular and morphological revision of genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), pp. 1-40 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2004.61.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10665495 ...