Crossaster penicillatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
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

Familia: Solasteridae
Genus: Crossaster
Species: Crossaster penicillatus

Name

Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889

Type locality: Challenger station 135c. Off Nightingale Island, Tritan da Cunha. Depth 110 fms.

Synonymy

Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889: 446–447, pl. 70 fig. 5, pl. 72 figs. 9–10; — Mortensen, 1933: 272–273; — Fisher, 1940: 180.
Solaster penicillatus (Sladen, 1889) Bell, 1905: 249.
Crossaster multispinus H.L. Clark, 1916: 66–67, pl. 18 figs. 5–6; — O’Hara, 1999: 182, pl. 1f; — McKnight, 2006: 13–24, pl. 4.
- Type locality: Between Gabo Island, Victoria, and Disaster Bay, New South Wales. Depth 50–100 fms.
- Paratype: MCZ AST-2500 [1].

References

Bell, F.J. 1905. On the Echinoderma found off the Coast of South Africa. Part II. Asteroidea. Marine investigations in South Africa. 3: 243–253. BHL Reference page.
Clark, H.L. 1916. Report on the sea-lilies, starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Biological Results of the Fishing experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914. 4(1): 1-123, pls. I-XLIV. BHL Reference page.
Fisher, W.K. 1940. Asteroidea. Discovery Reports. 20: 69–306. BHL Reference page.
McKnight, D.G. 2006. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Asteroidea (sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 120: 1–187. PDF 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.
O’Hara, T.D. 1990. Systematics and biology of Macquarie Island echinoderms. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria. 57(2): 167–223. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1999.57.09 Reference page.
Sladen, W.P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page.