Crossaster Muller & Troschel 1840 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Solasteridae; Crossaster; Antarctic; Koren; Pacific; Perrier; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092141; https://zenodo.org/record/8092141

Crossaster Müller & Troschel, 1840a Crossaster Müller & Troschel, 1840a: 103; 1840b: 318; Perrier 1875:272; Agassiz 1877: 98; Viguier 1879: 138; Bell 1881a: 140; Danielssen & Koren 1882: 51; Perrier 1896: 40; Fisher 1911: 389; Verrill 1914: 258; Fisher 1916: 447; Hayashi 1939: 297; 1940:186; Djakonov 1950: 71; H.E.S. Clark 1963: 55; Clark & Downey 1992: 296; McKnight 2006: 13. Solaster ( Polyaster ) Gray 1840: 183. Solaster (part) Fisher 1911: 389. Diagnosis Arms 8–15, disk broad. Abactinal skeleton openly reticulate with elongate paxillae, widely spaced. Spinelets pronounced and brush-like. Single series of marginals forming distinct periphery. Actinal plates confined to disk. (modified from Clark & Downey 1992) Comments Crossaster is a genus containing 10 species (Mah 2021) from cold-water and temperate water settings, including six species from Northern Hemisphere boreal habitats, one deep-sea species from the central Pacific and 3 species from high-latitude settings in the Southern ... : 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 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8090240 ...