Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970

Mah, Christopher L., 2011, Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa, Zootaxa 2759, pp. 1-48 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.276783
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184369
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D28792-FFE2-FFBB-84E4-14CC6E528785
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970
status

Treatment

Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970 View in CoL

Halpern, 1970a: 2; McKnight, 1973: 180; Downey in Clark & Downey, 1992: 258; McKnight, 2001: 102 (key).

Diagnosis. Body pentagonal in most species, weakly stellate in some. Abactinal plates weakly tabulate. Abactinal surface densely covered by coarse, hemispherical granules obscuring plate boundaries.

Comments. Pillsburiaster was initially described from the tropical Atlantic but the majority of species occur in the South Pacific/Indo-Pacific region.