Evoplosoma nizinskiae Mah 2020, n. sp. ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Evoplosoma; Evoplosoma nizinskiae; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803733; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3803733

Evoplosoma nizinskiae n. sp. Figure 9 A–F, 10A–D Etymology This species is named for my colleague Dr. Martha Nizinski in honor of her tireless contributions to deep-sea coral ecology and NOAA’s Ocean Explorer program. Diagnosis This species is characterized by the lack of primary spines on the abactinal plates, the evenly distributed granules, the absence of primary spines from interradial superomarginal plates-but present on distal superomarginal plates, mostly bare superomarginal plates save for coarse, widely spaced granules, prominent elongate subambulacral pedicellariae with three to four teeth per valve on each adambulacral plate and 7 to 10 leaflike furrow spines. Occurrence: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea (Puerto Rico), 2037–2549 m. Description Body strongly stellate (R/r=4.42), arms elongate with pointed arm tip, interradial arcs weakly curved to straight. Four arms (five on other observed specimens) (Fig. 9A). Abactinal surface pulpy, shows strongly convex surface but with some folded and sagged ... : Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, pp. 201-260 in Zootaxa 4766 (2) on pages 220-224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3764018 ...