Floriaster maya Downey, 1980

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 : 926-927

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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

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Goniasteridae

Genus

Floriaster

Loc

Floriaster maya Downey, 1980

Mah, Christopher L. 2006
2006
Loc

Floriaster maya

CLARK A. M. 1993: 253
CLARK A. M. & DOWNEY M. E. 1992: 244
DOWNEY M. E. 1980: 105
1980
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