Euryalidae Gray, 1840

Okanishi, Masanori, Olbers, Jennifer M. & Fujita, Toshihiko, 2013, A Taxonomic Review Of The Genus Asteromorpha Lütken (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61 (2), pp. 461-480 : 462

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scientific name

Euryalidae Gray, 1840
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Family Euryalidae Gray, 1840 View in CoL , emend. Okanishi et al., 2011

Subfamily Euryalinae Gray, 1840 , emend. Okanishi et al., 2011 Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869 View in CoL

Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869: 42–45 View in CoL ; Mortensen, 1933: 57; Baker, 1980: 70–72

Ophiogelas Koehler, 1930: 42–43 View in CoL

Type species. — Asteromorpha steenstrupi Lütken, 1869 View in CoL (= Asterochema rousseaui Michelin, 1862 )

Diagnosis. — External ossicles on body either plate-shaped, in full contact with each other, or granule-shaped and only partly in contact. Teeth triangular or square. Oral papillae domed, granule-shaped, on lateral side of jaws. Tentacle pores with two arm spines from fourth (rarely fifth) arm segment. Radial shields may bear large domed tubercles. Oral side of vertebrae with an oral bridge. Lamina of distal arm spines smooth.

Remarks. — Based on this study, Asteromorpha is currently composed of four species, A. capensis ( Mortensen, 1925) , A. rousseaui ( Michelin, 1862) , A. koehleri ( Döderlein, 1898) , and A. tenax Baker, 1980 . A tabular key to the species of Asteromorpha is provided ( Table 1).

Species of this genus are distributed in south-eastern Africa, south-western and eastern Australia, central Indonesia and south-eastern New Caledonia ( Fig. 1).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Ophiuroidea

Order

Euryalida

Family

Euryalidae

Loc

Euryalidae Gray, 1840

Okanishi, Masanori, Olbers, Jennifer M. & Fujita, Toshihiko 2013
2013
Loc

Ophiogelas

Koehler, R 1930: 43
1930
Loc

Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869: 42–45

Baker, A 1980: 70
Mortensen, T 1933: 57
Lutken, C 1869: 45
1869
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