Evoplosoma forcipifera Fisher 1906

• Main Authors: Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha, Lundsten, Lonny
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Goniasteridae; Evoplosoma; Evoplosoma forcipifera; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10545621; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C1391E19FF9E3753FC77FA25FC46B57B

EVOPLOSOMA FORCIPIFERA FISHER, 1906 Fisher, 1906: 1065; Clark, 1993: 253 Occurrence: Hawaiian Islands, east of Kauai Island, 48°S 15′W. 929–1247 m (682–508 fms). Comments: The specimen image of E. forcipifera from Trego (2008) lacks abactinal spination and shows quadrate marginals abutting along the midradius, a character absent from Evoplosoma , indicating that the specimen described in this paper is misidentified, invalidating Trego’s (2008) range extension for this species. The holotype for this species is missing from the USNM collections (Ahearn, 1995). EVOPLOSOMA SCORPIO DOWNEY, 1981 FIGURE 6A–E Downey, 1981: 561; Gage et al. , 1983: 280; Clark & Downey, 1992: 242; Clark, 1993: 253. Occurrence: South-west Rockall Trough to northeastern European Basin (48.5°N, 10°W) extended herein to off Delaware 38°45′N, 72°40′W. 1600– 2105 m. Material examined: USNM E50539, off Delaware, North Atlantic Ocean, 38°45′N, 72°40′W, 2105 m, coll. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, DSRV Alvin , 15.vii.1981 (1 dry spec. R = 5.5, r = 1.8); USNM E23623, off Ireland, North Atlantic, 55°12′N, 15°50′W, 1900 m, coll. J. Gage, R/V Challenger (1 dry spec. R = 8.2, r = 2.4). Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on pages 280-281, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114738