Zoroaster actinocles FISHER 1919

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Forcipulatida; Zoroasteridae; Zoroaster; Zoroaster actinocles; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Patton Seamount; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5489332; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5489332

ZOROASTER ACTINOCLES FISHER, 1919 Zoroaster actinocles Fisher, 1919: 390; 1928: 37; Clark & Mah, 2001: 233 Occurrence: Aleutian Islands, California to Chile. 1617−2710 m. Material examined: Alaska. CASIZ 120350 Patton Seamount, Gulf of Alaska. [1 wet spec. R >15.4, r = 2.1 (arms broken)] NMNH 37039 HOLOTYPE, North of Amukta Pass, Island of Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea. 53°12′N, 171°37′W, 2226 m, coll. 29.v.1906 (1 wet spec. R = 16.1, r = 1.1) California. CASIZ 769 Monterey Fan Valley, 36.00°33.70″N, 122.00°27.20″W, 2430−2710 m, Coll. 21.iii.1975. (8 wet spec. R = 9.7, r = 0.8; R = 7.6, r = 0.8; R = 8.8, r = 0.8; R = 6.1, r = 0.7; R = 6.1, r = 0.6; R = 5.2, r = 0.6) CASIZ 115905 East Cortes Bank, 32.00°15.90″Ν 118.00°41.20″W, 1617−1678 m, Coll. 20.i.1985. (2 wet specs. R = 13.4, r = 1.0, R = 12.3, r = 1.0) Chile. CASIZ 115934 Off Chile, 45°35′N, 75°55′W 1920.0 m, Coll. 11.ii.1888. (1 wet spec. R = 11.1, r = 1.1) NMNH 1084274 west mouth of Straits of Magellan. 53°13′S, 75°41′W to 53°16′S, 75°41′W. 1500−1666 m. Coll. 5.i.1966. (2 dry specs. R = 15.1, r = 1.3; R = 12.5, r = 1.0). Published as part of Mah, Christopher, 2007, Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features, pp. 177-210 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1) on page 195, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00291.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5430876