Zoroaster

Zoroaster fulgens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
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: Forcipulatida

Familia: Zoroasteridae
Genus: Zoroaster
Species: Z. actinocles – Z. adami – Z. alfredi – Z. alternicanthus – Z. angulatus – Z. barathri – Z. carinatus – Z. fulgens – Z. hirsutus – Z. macracantha – Z. magnificus – †Z. marambioensis – Z. microporus – Z. ophiactis – Z. ophiurus – Z. orientalis – Z. planus – Z. singletoni – Z. spinulosus – Z. tenuis – Z. variacanthus – †Z. whangareiensis

Name

Zoroaster Wyville Thomson, 1873

Type species: Zoroaster fulgens Wyville Thomson, 1873, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Prognaster Perrier, 1891: 259.
  • Type species: Prognaster grimaldii Perrier, 1891, by monotypy.
• Zoroaster Wyville Thomson, 1873: 154; — Sladen, 1889: 416–418; — Fisher, 1905: 315; — Fell, 1960: 65; — McKnight, 2006: 39; — Mah, 2007: 195; 2024: 465–466.

References

• Fell, H.B. 1960. Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 2. Archibenthal and littoral echinoderms. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 5: 1–31. PDF 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. 
• Mah, C.L. 2007. Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150(): 177–210. DOI: 10.1111/J.1096-3642.2007.00291.X Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2024. Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic. Zootaxa. 5432(4): 461–508. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5432.4.2 . Reference page. 
• McKnight, D.G. 2006. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Asteroidea (sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 120: 1–187. PDF Reference page. 
• Perrier, E. 1891. Stellerides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 4: 258–271. 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. 
• Thomson, C.W. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. Macmillan and Co.: London: 527 pp. BHL. Reference page.