Pythonaster pacificus
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Velatida |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Myxasteridae
Genus: Pythonaster
Species: Pythonaster pacificus
Name
editPythonaster pacificus Downey, 1979: 70
Holotype: USNM E17965, collected by Scripps Institution of Oceanography R/V Melville on 18 December 1969.
Type locality: “on the abyssal plain off Baja California (31º19.7’N, 119°39.2’W) at 2010 fms”.
References
edit- Downey, M.E. 1979. Pythonaster pacificus n.sp. a new starfish of the family Myxasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92(1): 70–74. BHL Reference page.