Eremicaster crassus

Eremicaster crassus, dorsal view

Eremicaster crassus, ventral view

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 crassus

Name

Eremicaster crassus (Sladen, 1883)

Original combination: Porcellanaster crassus Sladen, 1883

Type locality: Challenger station 286. South Pacific Ocean. 33.483333°S 133.366667°W / -33.483333; -133.366667. Depth 2335 fms.

Synonymy

• Porcellanaster crassus Sladen, 1883: 225–227; 1889: 141–143, pl. 22 figs. 4–7, pl. 27 figs. 1–4.
• Porcellanaster gracilis Sladen, 1883: 227–229; 1889: 143–145, pl. 22 figs. 1–3, pl. 27 figs. 5–8.
  • Type locality: Challenger station 298. South Pacific Ocean. 34.116667°S 73.933333°W / -34.116667; -73.933333. Depth 2225 fms.
  • Synonymised by Belyaev (1985).
• Porcellanaster (Eremicaster) tenebrarius Fisher, 1905: 293–294.
  • Type locality: Albatross station 4397. U.S.A., California, about 200 miles off San Diego. Depth 2196–2228 fms.
  • Holotype: USNM 22326 [1].
  • Synonymised by Belyaev (1985).
• Porcellanaster waltharii Ludwig, 1905: 92–97, pl. 5 figs. 26–27.
  • Syntypes: MCZ AST-2443 [2]; USNM 34395 [3]; USNM 34390 [4]; USNM 34392 [5]; USNM 34393 [6]; USNM 34394 [7]; USNM 34397 [8]; USNM 34392 [9]; USNM 34391 [10].
  • Synonymized by Fisher (1911: 24) with Eremicaster tenebrarius.
• Eremicaster crassus (Sladen, 1883) Ludwig, 1907: 318; — Mironov et al., 2023: 21–25, figs. 6A–C.
• Eremicaster gracilis (Sladen, 1883) Ludwig, 1907: 318.
  • Synonymised by Belyaev (1985).
• Eremicaster tenebrarius (Fisher, 1905) Ludwig, 1907: 318.; — Fisher, 1911: 24–29, pl. 1 figs. 1–4, pl. 2 fig. 4, pl. 53 figs. 4–4a; — H.L. Clark, 1913: 187.
  • Synonymised by Belyaev (1985).
• Eremicaster waltherii (Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, 1907: 318.
  • Synonymized by Fisher (1911: 24) with Eremicaster tenebrarius.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1913. Echinoderms from lower California with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 32: 185-236. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 76(1): xiii+420 pp.; 122 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Ludwig, H. 1905. Asterroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 32: vii–xii, 1–292. BHL Reference page. 
• Ludwig, H. 1907. Diagnosen neuer Tiefsee-Seesterne aus der Familie der Porcellanasteriden. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31: 312–319. BHL 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. 
• Sladen, P. 1883. The Asteroidea of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition - Part II. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 17: 214–269. BHL 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.