Stichasteridae

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Forcipulatida; Stichasteridae; Faroe Islands; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10928221; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD09D3424838FFE7FF77FCC9FAE5436C

Stichasteridae Perrier 1885: 885; 1885 b: 15; Sladen 1889: 430; Mortensen 1927: 133; Mah & Foltz 2011b: 652 (reinstated) Neomorphasteridae Fisher 1923: 250; 1928: 56 (key); 1930: 211; Spencer & Wright 1966: U 77. Comments Although Neomorphaster margaritaceus is a familiar North Atlantic species, this is the first taxonomic accounting of Neomorphaster since it has been returned to the Stichasteridae following molecular phylogenetic revisions (Mah & Foltz 2011b). This differs from Ringvold & Anderson (2016) which cited occurrence from the Faroe Islands. Clark & Downey (1992) cited it as a member of Fisher’s Neomorphasteridae, a name which has since been synonymized following reinstatement of the Stichasteridae (Mah & Foltz 2011b). The eastern Atlantic Stichastrella is also a member of the Stichasteridae present in the northern hemisphere. Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2024, Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic, pp. 461-508 in Zootaxa 5432 (4) on page 462, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5432.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10910698