Astrophiura permira

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879

Note: a preliminary notice was published in 1878 but according to H.L. Clark (1923: 354) it was not sufficiant to establish the species.
Type locality: Madagascar

Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1878: 456–457; 1879: 401–414, pl. 20; — Hertz, 1927: 83, pl. 7, figs. 4–5; — Mortensen, 1933: 394–396, figs. 90–91; — Thuy, Gale & Numberger-Thuy, 2019: fig. 2.
Astrophiura cavellae Koehler, 1915: 1–15, figs. 1–6; — H.L. Clark, 1923: 354–356.
- Synonymised by Hertz (1927).
- Type locality: South Africa. 34°33′18″S 18°21′12″E / 34.555°S 18.353333°E / -34.555; 18.353333. Depth 318 m.
- Syntype: ZMB 7079.

Clark, H.L. 1923. The Echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 13(7): 221–435, pls VIII–XXIII. BHL Reference page.
Hertz, M.C. 1927b. Die Ophiuroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. I. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 1898-1899. 22(3):59-122. Reference page.
Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1915. Description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Astrophiura, l'Astrophiura cavellae. Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique de Monaco. 311: 1–15. BHL Reference page.
Mortensen, O.T.J. 1933. Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914—16. LXV. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 93: 215–400; pl. VIII–XIX. PDF. Reference page.
Sladen, P. 1878. On Astrophiura permira, an Echinoderm-Form Intermediate between Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 27(185–189): 456–457. DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1878.0083 BHL Reference page.
Sladen, P. 1879. On the structure of Astrophiura, a new and aberrant genus of Echinodermata. Ann.Mag.nat.Hist. ser. 5. 4: 401-415. BHL Reference page.
Thuy, B., Gale, A.S., Numberger-Thuy, L.D. 2019. Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution. PeerJ. 7:e8008. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8008 Reference page.