Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909

Mah, Christopher L., 2006, Phylogeny and biogeography of the deep-sea goniasterid Circeaster (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Goniasteridae) including descriptions of six new species, Zoosystema 28 (4), pp. 917-954 : 935

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4525461

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4525383

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scientific name

Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909
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Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909 View in CoL

Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909: 84 View in CoL , pl. IV, figs 1, 2, pl. VI, fig. 1. — Clark 1993: 251.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — No specimens available for examination.

DISTRIBUTION. — Recorded from 7°23’N, 75°44’E in the Indian Ocean. 1926 m (1053 fms).

DIAGNOSIS. — R/r = 2.67. Arm plates significantly larger than disk plates.Transition abrupt between abactinal disk and arm plates. Abactinal granules absent. Superomarginals not abutting at midline, arm plates continuous to terminal. Interradial arcs linear.Spinelets and granules with spiny tips cover superomarginal, inferomarginal plates, actinal surface. Seven to eight thick, blunt furrow spines. Prominent paddle-like toothed pedicellariae, separated from furrow spines. Granules identical to actinal surface present on remainder of adambulacral plate.

APOMORPHY LIST. — Nodes 14 to Circeaster marcelli : 1.4, abactinal accessories absent; 1.6, no size, accessories absent.

DESCRIPTION

See Koehler (1909; translation in English of the description is available from the author).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Goniasteridae

Genus

Circeaster

Loc

Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909

Mah, Christopher L. 2006
2006
Loc

Circeaster marcelli

CLARK A. M. 1993: 251
KOEHLER R. 1909: 84
1909
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