Circeaster americanus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Goniasteridae
Subfamilia: Circeasterinae
Genus: Circeaster
Species: Circeaster americanus

Name

Circeaster americanus (A.H. Clark, 1916)

Original combination: Lydiaster americanus A.H. Clark, 1916

Type locality: Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A., Florida, South of Pensacola. Albatros station 2395. 28°36′15″N 86°50′00″W / 28.604194°N 86.833306°W / 28.604194; -86.833306. Depth 635m.

Holotype: USNM 10872 [1].

Synonymy

Lydiaster americanus A.H. Clark, 1916: 141–144.
Circeaster occidentalis H.L. Clark, 1941: 46–49, pl. 4 fig. 2.
- Type locality: Cuba, Nicholas Channel, off Puerto Sagua la Grande.
- Holotype: MCZ AST-3819 [2].
- Paratypes: MCZ AST-502 [3]; MCZ AST-3984 [4]; MCZ AST-3985 [5].
- Synonymised by Halpern (1970).
Circeaster americanus (A.H. Clark, 1916) Halpern, 1970: 265–270, figs. 26, 27, 28A; — Mah, 2015a: 2; — Mah, 2020: 218–219, fig. 7A–C; — Mah, 2024b: 481–483, figs. 8A–B, 9A–B.

References

Clark, A.H. 1916. A new starfish (Lydiaster americanus) from the Gulf of Mexico, representing a section of the subfamily Goniasterinae hitherto known only from the Indo-Pacific region. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 6(4): 141–144. BHL Reference page.
Clark, H.L. 1941. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Echinoderms (other than holothurians). Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural. 15(1): 1-154, 10 plates. Reference page.
Halpern, J.A. 1970. Biological Investigations of the deep sea. 51. Goniasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) of the Straits of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science. 20(1): 193–286. Online Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2015a. A new Atlantic species of Evoplosoma with taxonomic summary and in situ observations of Atlantic deep-sea corallivorous Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea). Marine Biodiversity Records. 8: e5. DOI: 10.1017/S1755267214001407 . Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2020. New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer. Zootaxa. 4766(2): 201-260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1 Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2024b. Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic. Zootaxa. 5432(4): 461–508. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5432.4.2 . Reference page.