Evoplosoma virgo

Evoplosoma virgo, holotype dorsal view

Evoplosoma virgo, holotype ventral view

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Goniasteridae
Subfamilia: Hippasterinae
Genus: Evoplosoma
Species: Evoplosoma virgo

Name

Evoplosoma virgo Downey, 1982: 772

Type locality: “Alaminos Station 71A8-8, northwestern Gulf of Mexico, 26.13°N 26.13°E / 26.13; 26.13, 2056 m”.

Holotype: USNM E24285 [1], collected by Willis E. Pequegnat on 30 July 1971.

Synonymy

• Evoplosoma virgo Downey, 1982: 772–773, fig. 1; — Mah, Nizinski & Lundsten, 2010: 282–283, fig. 9A–D; — ; — Mah, 2015a: 4, 8.

References

• Downey, M.E. 1982. Evoplosoma virgo, a new goniasterid starfish (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(4): 772–773. BHL 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., Nizinski, M., Lundsten, L. 2010. Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160(2): 266–301. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00703.x Reference page.  [p. 282–283]

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