Lithosoma novaezealandiae McKnight 1973 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Lithosoma; Lithosoma novaezealandiae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184357; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6184357

Lithosoma novaezealandiae McKnight, 1973 (Figure 12 A–D) McKnight, 1973: 189, fig. 9; A.M. Clark, 1993: 260; H.E.S. Clark in Clark & McKnight, 2001: 63. Distribution. New Zealand and surrounding areas. 120–1190 m. Material examined. South Pacific. USNM 1100882 Campbell Plateau, New Zealand. 49°01’60’S, 168°53’30’E, 733 m. Coll. National Institute of Water and Atmosphere. (1 dry spec. R=5.2, r=1.9); USNM 1100883 South Island, New Zealand 41°58, 170 °28’E, 480 m. Coll. National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (1 dry spec. R=5.5, r=1.7); USNM 1120469 South of New Zealand. 53˚29’S, 169˚48’E, 389– 594 m. Coll. Univ. Southern California (1 dry spec. R=2.3, r=0.9). Description. Body strongly stellate in shape, R/r=2.5–2.8, flattened, stout with acutely tapering triangular arms with weakly curved interradial arcs (Fig. 12 A). Abactinal surface flat, planar (Fig. 12 A). Individual plates in well-ordered arrangement, hexagonal to round in outline. Fasciolar rows, shallow, present between plates. Primary circlet ... : 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 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783 ...