Eremicaster vicinus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paxillosida
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: Paxillosida

Familia: Porcellanasteridae
Genus: Eremicaster
Species: Eremicaster vicinus

Name

Eremicaster vicinus (Hubert Ludwig, 1907)

Original combination: Porcellanaster vicinus Hubert Ludwig, 1907

Type locality: Albatross St. 4670, off Peru, 12°13′00″S 80°25′00″W / 12.2167°S 80.4167°W / -12.2167; -80.4167, 5869 m.

Syntypes: USNM E 941 [1]; USNM E 704 [2].

Synonymy

Porcellanaster vicinus Hubert Ludwig, 1907: 318.
Eremicaster vicinus (Hubert Ludwig, 1907) Fisher, 1907: 14; — H.L. Clark, 1920: 77–78, pl. 2 figs. 7–8; — Madsen, 1961: 161–165, fig. 30; — Dilman, 2013: 567–568; — Mironov et al., 2019: 3–4; — Mironov et al., 2023: 26–29, fig. 7E–H.

References

Clark, H.L. 1920. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Fish commission Steamer “Albatross”, from October 19045 to March 1905, Lt. Cmdr. L.M. Garrett, USN, Commanding. XXXII. Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 39(3): 70–154. BHL. Reference page.
Dilman, A.B. 2013. Asteroid fauna of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: additional records. Marine Biology Research. 9(5–6): 563–586. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2012.749993 . Reference page.
Fisher, W.K. 1907. Note on Eremicaster, a genus of starfishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 32: 12–14. BHL Reference page.
Ludwig, H. 1907. Diagnosen neuer Tiefsee-Seesterne aus der Familie der Porcellanasteriden. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31: 312–319. BHL Reference page.
Madsen, F.J. 1961. The Porcellanasteridae. A monographic revision of an abyssal group of sea-stars. Galathea Report. 4: 33–174. 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.
Mironov, A.N., Dilman, A.B., Petrov, N.B., Vladychenskaya, I.P. 2023. Taxonomic Status and Composition of the Genera Caulaster, Porcellanaster and Eremicaster (Asteroidea) Based on Juvenile Morphology and Molecular Phylogenetic Data. Diversity. 15(10): 1–50. DOI: 10.3390/d15101032 . Reference page.

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