Hippasteria Gray 1840 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Hippasteria; Antarc*; Antarctic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184348; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6184348

Hippasteria Gray, 1840 Gray, 1840: 279; 1866: 9; Perrier, 1875: 271; (1876: 86); Sladen, 1889: 341; Fisher, 1911: 223; Verrill, 1914: 300; Koehler, 1924: 178; Mortensen, 1927: 88; Dons, 1938: 17; Fisher, 1911: 223; Verrill, 1914: 300; Mortensen, 1927: 88; 1940: 125; Djakonov, 1950: 51 (1968: 42); Bernasconi, 1964: 253; 1964: 253; Halpern, 1970b: 183; A.M. Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 63; Clark & Downey, 1992: 246; H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 54; Mah et al. 2010: 284. Diagnosis. Body strongly stellate, disk thickened. Abactinal, marginal, actinal surfaces bear large, conical spines in most species. Large bivalve pedicellariae present in most species. Thickened, pulpy body wall embedded with body wall plates. Secondary plates present. Furrow spines one to three, enlarged. Comments. Hippasteria and the Hippasterinae, were reviewed by Mah et al. (2010) and are apparently absent from the Southern Ocean. Only two species, H. phrygiana and H. falklandica are known from the region covered herein, but ... : Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2011, Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa, pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2759 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783 ...