Crossaster penicillatus Sladen 1889 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Solasteridae; Crossaster; Crossaster penicillatus; Antarctic; Atkinson; Rowe; Sladen; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092143; https://zenodo.org/record/8092143

Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889 FIGURE 14 A–E Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889: 446, pl. 70, 72; Koehler 1907: 141, 1908; H.L. Clark 1923: 295, 1926: 21; Fisher 1940: 180; Mortensen 1933: 273; A.M. Clark 1952: 197; A.M. Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976: 86; Atkinson & Sink 2018: 435. Solaster penicillatus Bell, 1905: 249. Crossaster multispinus H.L. Clark, 1916: 66, pl. 18; H.L. Clark 1946: 150; Rowe & Gates 1995: 113; O’Hara 1998: 182, pl. 1f. Crossaster japonicus Fell, 1958: 17, pl. 2; 1960: 64; McKnight 1993: 193 (non Fisher 1911). Diagnosis Arms 9–12, gradually tapering. Body stellate, R/r=2.0–3.3. Interradial arcs acute (Fig. 14A). Abactinal plates forming open reticulate mesh on disk and arms with skin present between lobate plates. Individual small plates present in skin filled regions (Fig. 14A, B). Abactinal paxillae with pointed spinelets, 4–15, each bearing hyaline tips. Central spinelets most elongate flanked by shorter similar spines. Marginal plates, approximately 15–18 per side ... : 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 45-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8090240 ...