Freyastera loricata (Korovchinsky & Galkin, 1984) comb. nov.

Fig. 9 A – D

Freyella loricata: Korovchinsky and Galkin 1984: 1208; Galkin and Korovchinsky 1984: 167; Mah 1998: 90; Mah in Clark and Mah 2001: 322; Zhang et al. 2019: 7 (in key).

Material examined.

ECH 00161 (paratype) (Fig. 9 A – D). (Suppl. material 1) .

Remarks.

Freyella loricata was described based on multiple individuals collected from east of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (Korovchinsky and Galkin 1984). Same as F. giardi, this species was traditionally classified as Freyella but has many shared characters with Freyastera, especially with F. tuberculata . It has inferomarginal plates and lateral spines that begin at the 7 th adambulacral plate, appear at alternate adambulacral plates, and then at every adambulacral plate (Korovchinsky and Galkin 1984); thus, we reassign this species as Freyastera loricata comb. nov.

Distribution.

Only known at type locality. East of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. 4995–5998 m.