Amphiaster insignis Verrill 1868

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Asterodiscididae; Amphiaster; Amphiaster insignis; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baja; Pacific; Rowe; Rapa; Rapa Nui; Barraza; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4896904; https://zenodo.org/record/4896904

Amphiaster insignis Verrill, 1868 Verrill 1868: 372; Fisher 1911: 168; Verrill 1914: 294; Rowe 1977: 211; Barraza & Hasbun 2005: 141. Comments. Living color of this species appears to vary from orange with deep-red/orange inter- radii to a much lighter, weak peach color with dark orange interradii on the disk. Occurrence. Baja, California to Central America and Panama, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Revillagigedo Islands, Malpelo Island, Columbia, El Salvador. 13–66 m. (Maluf 1988 lists depth as 0–128 m). Material Examined. CASIZ 108856. 2 km N of Boca Del Tule to Arena Blanka, Baja California. 23º15′N, 109º22′W, 30.4 m (100 feet). Coll. W. Lee et al . 26 April 1976. 1 wet spec. R =1.4, r=0.7. CASIZ 163511. Tiger Mount, Malpelo Island, 4°44′N, 81°36.09′W, 40–56 m (130–185 ft). Coll. K.L. Kaiser aboard M / V “ Inzan Tiger ”, 14 March 2000. 1 wet spec. USNM 39862. Pichilingue Bay, Baja California. Coll. U.S. F.S. Albatross , 1911. 1 dry spec. R =3.2, r=1.3. USNM 1114692. Todos Santos, Baja California. 23º24′53″N, 120º13′53″W, Coll. R / V. Lovito, March 2008, 1 dry spec. R =7.7, r=3.1. : Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2021, The East Pacific / South Pacific Boundary: New taxa and occurrences from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Caledonia and adjacent regions, pp. 401-450 in Zootaxa 4980 (3) on page 408, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4896889 : {"references": ["Verrill, A. E. (1868) Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 4 Notice of the corals and Echinoderms collected by Prof. C. F. Hartt, at the Abrolhos Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, 1867. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1 (2), 351 - 613.", "Fisher, W. K. (1911) Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the US National Museum, 76, i - xiii + 1 - 420. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.76. i", "Verrill, A. E. (1914) Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: U. S. National Museum, 14, 1 - 408. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 25926", "Rowe, F. W. E. (1977) A new family of Asteroidea (Echinodermata), with the description of five new species and one new subspecies of Asterodiscides. Records of the Australian Museum, 31 (5), 187 - 233. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.31.1977.209", "Barraza, J. E. & Hasbun, C. R. (2005) Los equinodermos (Echinodermata) de El Salvador. Revista de Biologia Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology), 53 (Supplement 3), 139 - 146.", "Maluf, Y. (1988) Composition and distribution of the central eastern Pacific echinoderms. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Technical Reports, 2, 1 - 242."]}