Floriaster maya Downey, 1980
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Floriaster maya Downey, 1980 |
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Floriaster maya Downey, 1980 View in CoL
( Fig. 2E, F View FIG )
Floriaster maya Downey, 1980: 105 View in CoL , figs 1, 2. — Clark & Downey 1992: 244, pl. 56G-H. — Clark 1993: 253.
HOLOTYPE. — Caribbean Sea. Southern end of Yucatan Channel , 20°45’N, 86°27’W, 933-1024 m, 6.VII.1970, 1 dry spec., R = 4.0 cm, r = 2.0 cm ( NMNH E18324 View Materials ). GoogleMaps
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Bahamas. Blake Plateau , North Atlantic Ocean, 28°06’N, 77°08’W, 1023-1153 m, 21.IX.1980, 2 dry specs, R = 3.9 cm, r = 2.0 cm GoogleMaps ; R = 5.1 cm, r = 2.1 cm ( NMNH E38662). DISTRIBUTION. — Caribbean Sea. 933-1153 m .
DIAGNOSIS. — R/r ≈ 2.0-2.5. Abactinal plates round to polygonal in shape small, irregularly distributed
relative to Cladaster . Enlarged, round tubercles covering abactinal, actinal surfaces. Abactinal, actinal plates with coarse, angular peripheral granules. Marginal plates with tubercles and coarse, nubbin-like granules. Approximately 30 marginal plates present from interradius to interradius. Interradial arcs linear. Paddle-like pedicellariae on adambulacral plates; subambulacral spine, enlarged, blunt, abradial to pedicellariae. Furrow spines five to seven, compressed, angular in cross-section.
APOMORPHY LIST. — Nodes 24 to Floriaster maya : 1.5, single tubercle present; 1.8, tubercles present on distal arm surface.
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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile |
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Floriaster maya Downey, 1980
Mah, Christopher L. 2006 |
Floriaster maya
CLARK A. M. 1993: 253 |
CLARK A. M. & DOWNEY M. E. 1992: 244 |
DOWNEY M. E. 1980: 105 |