Tremaster mirabilis Verrill, 1880

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-

Tremaster mirabilis Verrill, 1880

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Tremaster mirabilis ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida ; family: Asterinidae ; genus: Tremaster ; scientificNameAuthorship: Verrill, 1880; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Fuvahmulah ; minimumDepthInMeters: 488; maximumDepthInMeters: 499; 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

Outline pentagonal-shaped and inflated centrally with large central disc and thin body edges. Approximately 9 cm in the longest dimension. Collected specimen (Fig. 245).