Elpidia birsteini

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elasipodida
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: Holothuroidea Subclassis: Aspidochirotacea Ordo: Elasipodida

Familia: Elpidiidae
Genus: Elpidia
Species: Elpidia birsteini

Name

Elpidia birsteini Belyaev, 1971

Type locality: Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, RV Vityaz, cruise 39, St. 5612, 27.07.1966, Sigsbee trawl, 45.416667°N 153.116667°E / 45.416667; 153.116667, 8185–8400 m.

Etymology: named after Yakov Avadievich Birstein.

Synonymy

• Elpidia birsteini Belyaev, 1971: 336–338, fig. 4; — Mironov et al., 2019: 9–10, fig. 5B.

References

• Belyaev, G.M. 1971. Deep-sea holothurians of the genus Elpidia. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Akademii Nauk SSSR. 92: 326–367. (in Russian).Reference page. 
• Mironov, A.N., Dilman, A.B., Gebruk, A.V. , Kremenetskaia, A., Minin, K.V., Smirnov, I.S. 2019. Echinoderms of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Progress in Oceanography. 179: 102217. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102217 . Reference page.