Fromia nodosa A. M. Clark, 1967

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Fromia nodosa A. M. Clark, 1967

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Fromia nodosa; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida; family: Goniasteridae; genus: Fromia; scientificNameAuthorship: A. M. Clark, 1967; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Alphonse N 1, D'Arros N 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 33.5 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 71.4 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Christopher Mah , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Five tapered arms and conspicuous central disc. The main body is dark red and the plates are creamy light brown to orange. Sometimes whitish. The central disc and the tips of the arms are darker. Maximum recorded size: 10 cm across. The collected specimen was F. nodosa ; however, we want to mention that Fromia monilis has a very similar appearance. They can be distinguished by looking at the red-tipped arms - the arms of F. nodosa have red tips only, whilst the arms of F. monilis are coloured red halfway (Fig. 124).