Remaster palmatus
Remaster palmatus (Perrier 1881) Figure 20A This and other observations of this species during EX 1905L2 represent the first known in situ observations of this species. Observations herein show individuals hunched over sponge-covered substratum suggesting that they are almost certainly a food source...
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Summary: | Remaster palmatus (Perrier 1881) Figure 20A This and other observations of this species during EX 1905L2 represent the first known in situ observations of this species. Observations herein show individuals hunched over sponge-covered substratum suggesting that they are almost certainly a food source. Remaster palmatus is one of two species within the genus Remaster , the other species, Remaster gourdoni Koehler 1912 is known primarily from the Antarctic. The Korethrasteridae are members of the Velatida, which includes the Myxasteridae and the Pterasteridae. Images Observed 28 June, Stetson Mesa Terrace, North Atlantic, 31.594604, -79.102624, 445 m, (both files) EX1903L2_IMG_20190628T164834Z_ROVHD.jpg EX1903L2_IMG_20190628T162943Z_ROVHD.jpg Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, pp. 201-260 in Zootaxa 4766 (2) on page 243, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3764018 |
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