Choriaster granulatus Lütken, 1869

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Choriaster granulatus Lütken, 1869

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Choriaster granulatus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida ; family: Oreasteridae ; genus: Choriaster ; scientificNameAuthorship: Lütken, 1869; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Vaavu, Huvadhu, Fuvahmulah, Addu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 26; maximumDepthInMeters: 60; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Christopher Mah; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Large inflated central disc with short compact and cylindrical arms. Arms rounded and cylindrical at the tips. Approximately 24 cm in the longest dimension. Colouration pink, orange and peach tones with distinctly lighter colouration tips of arms (Fig. 254).