Leptasterias tatei Clark & Jewett, 2015, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Clark, Roger N., Jewett, Stephen C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Forcipulatida; Asteriidae; Leptasterias; Leptasterias tatei; Thumb; Adak; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Makarius Bay; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105211; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6105211

Leptasterias tatei sp. nov. Figures 1–11 Type locality. Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Adak Island, Thumb Bay entrance, W side (51° 50.08 N, 176° 32.31 W) (leg. Roger N. Clark, scuba 11 m; 20 July, 2011; R/V Norseman). Holotype. LACM 2011-158.001 Paratype. LACM 2011-159.001; genetic sample LACM 2011-159.002 Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Amchitka Island, SE side, W of Makarius Bay (51° 23.16 N, 179° 11.02 E). Diagnosis.Star of moderate size; R to 9 cm, R:r 6–9 (Fig. 1). Five rays, relatively long; abactinal ossicles 2–4 lobed, with single spines; spines relatively short, stout, truncated bearing numerous fine vertical ridges; superomarginal and inferomarginal ossicles bear a single thick, blunt spine, similar to abactinal spines; all spines wreathed with numerous crossed pedicellariae. Tube feet, in four rows. Color in life reddish with lighter mottlings abactinally, actinal surface straw colored. Description. Moderate sized star R to 9 cm, r = 1 cm, R:r 9.1 (Holotype, Fig. 1). Disc small, five rays, fairly long, ... : Published as part of Clark, Roger N. & Jewett, Stephen C., 2015, A new sea star of the genus Leptasterias (Asteroidea: Asteriidae) from the Aleutian Islands, pp. 579-584 in Zootaxa 3941 (4) on pages 580-583, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/244519 ...