Odontasteridae Verrill 1899 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Odontasteridae; Antarctic; New Zealand; Pacific; Perrier; Sladen; Antarc*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092135; https://zenodo.org/record/8092135

ODONTASTERIDAE Verrill, 1899 Comments The Odontasteridae currently includes six genera, which all occur in the Southern Hemisphere, primarily at high-latitudes with some species of Odontaster Verrill, 1880 exceptionally present in the Northern Hemisphere in deep-water settings from the North Atlantic and North Pacific (Fisher 1911; Clark & Downey 1992) and one species of Hoplaster Perrier in Milne-Edwards, 1882 from the Atlantic (Clark & Downey 1992). The most recent genus and species within the Odontasteridae, Diabocilla clarki McKnight, 2006 was described from New Zealand waters (McKnight 2006). The Odontasteridae has largely been supported as monophyletic by three-gene molecular data (Mah & Foltz 2011b) relative to other families within the Valvatida. The Chaetasteridae Sladen, 1889 was supported as the sister branch to the Odontasteridae. Genera within the Odontasteridae have shown superficial resemblance with taxa in the Goniasteridae and the Astropectinidae Gray, 1840 owing to its spiny, ... : Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2023, New Genera, Species, and observations on the biology of Antarctic Valvatida (Asteroidea), pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5310 (1) on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8090240 ...