Hippasteria mammifera Djakonov 1950

• Main Authors: Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha, Lundsten, Lonny
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Hippasteria; Hippasteria mammifera; Okhotsk; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491798; https://zenodo.org/record/5491798

HIPPASTERIA MAMMIFERA DJAKONOV, 1950 Djakonov, 1950: 54 (1968: 45), 1952: 409. Occurrence: Okhotsk Sea. 97 m. Comments: This species was described by Djakonov (1950) as a separate species based on extremely swollen and hemispherical marginal and abactinal plates. This character is plesiomorphic to H. spinosa (and to a certain extent, H. phrygiana ), which undermines the distinctiveness of this species and further lends support to its synonymy with H. spinosa . Material examined: None. : Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on page 286, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x : {"references": ["Djakonov AM. 1950. Sea stars (asteroids) of the USSR seas. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR Moskva-Leningrad 34: 1 - 203.", "Djakonov AM. [Translated as Dyakonov] 1968. Sea stars (asteroids) of the USSR seas. In: Strelkov AA, ed. Keys to the fauna of the USSR 34. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Jerusalem: Israel Program for scientific translations Ltd. 183 pp."]}