Lophaster stellans Sladen 1889

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
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• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Solasteridae; Lophaster; Lophaster stellans; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; Bellingshausen Sea; Pacific; Sladen; Antarc*; Knox land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8090192; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387E86604FFD6FF68E6A682E4F869

Lophaster stellans Sladen, 1889 FIGURE 17A–F, 25C Lophaster stellans Sladen, 1889: 460; Ludwig 1903: 27; Koehler 1920: 151; Fisher 1940: 170; A.M. Clark 1962: 50; Bernasconi 1966: 165; 1973b: 310; Clark & Downey 1992: 300 Diagnosis Species showing paxillar spinelets with three or more prongs and marginal paxillae with equal sized spinelets. Comments This species has not historically been recorded from this far north or from the South Pacific region, with most species recorded from the region adjacent to the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Pacific Patagonian region. However A.M. Clark (1962) does record this species from Knox Land in the Victoria Quadrant. Danis et al. (2012) documented this species from 4752 m but without description or imagery, verification of this record was not possible. Occurrence Patagonia, the Falkland Island (Malvinas), Bellingshausen Sea, Knox Land in the Victoria Quadrant, 25−463 m. South Pacific. West of Antipodes 476−540 m. Chile, Strait of Magellan region. Material Examined USNM E53600 Off Chile, South Pacific Ocean. −33.37, −71.9, 260−280 m. Coll. L.W. Knapp aboard R/V Anton Bruun , 31 July 1966. 2 dry specs. R=2.6 r=0.5, R=2.3 r=0.4. USNM 1087339, Cape Froward, Strait of Magellan, Chile, South Pacific, −53.6567, −70.9183, 18−27 m. Coll. U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 26 April 1970. 1 dry specs. R=3.8 r=1.1. USNM 1091336, Valdivia, De la Araucania, Chile, South Pacific. −39.1, −73.55, 73 m. Coll. Smithsonian Sorting center, 9 May 1965. 1 dry spec. R=0.8 r=0.3. USNM 1120474, West mouth of Strait of Magellan, Chile, South Pacific Ocean. −52.717, −74.525, 188−247 m. Coll. USAP, Smithsonian Sorting center, 6 Jan. 1966. R=3.6 r=1.0, R=3.5 r=1.0, R=4.2 r=1.0, R=3.5 r=1.0, R=2.2 r=0.7, R=1.6 r=0.4, R=2.9 r=0.9, R=3.8 r=0.9, R=2.4 r=0.5, R=2.8 r=0.8, R=1.8 r=0.5, R=2.6 r=0.5, R=4.3 r=1.1, R=3.6 r=0.8, R=3.5 r=0.8, R=3.6, R=4.6 r=0.9, R=3.6 r=1.0, R=4.3 r=1.3, R=4.0 r=1.1, R=4.5 r=1.1, R=3.7 r=0.9, R=4.0 r=1.3, R=3.5 r=0.8, R=3.6 r=1.0, R=2.9 r=1.0 R=3.5 r=0.8, R=3.4 r=0.9, R=3.2 ...