Freyellaster fecundus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brisingida
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: Brisingida

Familia: Brisingidae
Genus: Freyellaster
Subgenus: Freyellaster (Freyellaster)
Species: Freyellaster (Freyellaster) fecundus

Name

Freyellaster fecundus (Fisher, 1905)

• Original combination: Freyella fecunda Fisher, 1905
• Type locality: Albatross station 4530. USA, California, Monterey Bay, Point Pinos. Depth 958 fms.
• Holotype: USNM 22349 [1].

Synonymy

• Freyella fecunda Fisher, 1905: 319–320.
• Freyellaster fecundus (Fisher, 1905) Fisher, 1918: 104; 1928: 21–24, pl. 3 figs. 1, 1a–f, pl. 7 fig. 2, pl. 9, pl. 12 fig. 1.
• Freyellaster (Freyellaster) fecundus (Fisher, 1905); — Zhang in Zhang et al., 2023: 17.

References

• Fisher, W.K. 1905. New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 24: 293–320. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1918. Notes on Asteroidea. II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology serie 9. 2(7): 103–111. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1928. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters. Part 2. Forcipulata (part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 76: 1–245. BHL. Reference page. 
• Zhang, R.-Y., Fau, M., Mah, C.L., Eléaume, M., Zhang, D.-S., Zhou, Y.-D., Lu, B., Wang, C.-S. 2023. Systematics of deep-sea starfish order Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with a revised classification and assessments of morphological characters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 191: 1–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107993 . Reference page.