Solaster longoi Stampanato & Jangoux 1993 ...

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Solasteridae; Solaster; Solaster longoi; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092158; https://zenodo.org/record/8092158

Synonymy of Solaster longoi Stampanato & Jangoux, 1993 New specimens of apparent Solaster longoi Stampanato & Jangoux, 1993 showing further size variation, including specimens from R= 1.8 to 6.4 cm were examined indicating that it is a synonym of Solaster regularis . The type series of S. longoi show a size range of R= 1.9 to 4.1 cm with the holotype showing R= 3.3 cm. Specimens with R=1.8 to 2.5 showed several overlapping characters between S. longoi and S. regularis as outlined in Stampanato & Jangoux (1993) and A.M. Clark (1962) indicating that S. longo i are small individuals of S. regularis . Specimens from USNM 1121461 for example showed 1 or 2 actinal intermediate spines as well as 2–3 furrow spines as outlined for type specimens for S. longoi , but also displayed 4 furrow and transverse subambulacral spines. One individual, USNM 1137343 at R= 6.4 cm showed 3 to 6 inferomarginal spines distally ( S. longoi ) but 10–11 spines proximally ( S. regularis ) as well as 5 to 8 spinelets on the ... : 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 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5310.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8090240 ...