Pillsburiaster Halpern 1970 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Pillsburiaster; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184369; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6184369

Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970 Halpern, 1970a: 2; McKnight, 1973: 180; Downey in Clark & Downey, 1992: 258; McKnight, 2001: 102 (key). Diagnosis. Body pentagonal in most species, weakly stellate in some. Abactinal plates weakly tabulate. Abactinal surface densely covered by coarse, hemispherical granules obscuring plate boundaries. Comments. Pillsburiaster was initially described from the tropical Atlantic but the majority of species occur in the South Pacific/Indo-Pacific region. ... : 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 page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276783 ...