Sthenaster emmae

Sthenaster emmae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
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: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Goniasteridae
Subfamilia: Hippasterinae
Genus: Sthenaster
Species: Sthenaster emmae

Name

Sthenaster emmae Mah, Nizinski & Lundsten, 2010

Type locality: North Atlantic Ocean, Savannah Banks, 31.7044°N 79.1314°W / 31.7044; -79.1314, depth 516 m.

Holotype: USNM 1124468 [1].

Paratypes: USNM E15539 [2]; USNM 1124469 [3].

Synonymy

• Sthenaster emmae Mah, Nizinski & Lundsten, 2010: 274–276, fig. 4A–H; — Mah, 2015a 10; — Mah, 2020: 237–238, fig. 17.

References

• 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. 2020. New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer. Zootaxa. 4766(2): 201-260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1 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. 

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