Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter)

Sastry, D. R. K., Marimuthu, N. & Rajan, Rajkumar, 2019, Echinodermata of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea with the description of a new genus and a species, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter)

1888. Actinometra distincta : Carpenter, P.H. Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology. 26 (part 60): i-x, 295, pl. lv. Fig. 1 .

1894. Antedon brevicirra Bell, F.J. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1894: 400. WoRMS

1971. Comaster brevicirra : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-west Pacific echinoderms,

p. 6-7 (Distribution), p. 16 (Key). WoRMS

1971. Comaster distinctus : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E.

Monograph of shallow-water Indo-West Pacific echinoderms, p. 16 (key) and p. 6-7 (distribution).

2007. Comatula brevicirra : Sastry, D.R.K. Rec. zool. Surv. India. Occ. Paper No. 271: 9

2019. Phanogenia distincta : Messing, C.WoRMS

Material: AGE-39. Dt. 06.02.2018. One spec.

AGNN18-42. Dt. 20.11.2018. One spec.

Description: Arms only 30 intact in specimen from AG, arms 39 in the other from AGE First brachial syzygy at 1+2 Several Br series broken, first brachial pinnule on second segment, some division series also with pinnules. Division series up to IVBr, IIBr with 4 ossicles, others with 2 or 4 ossicles, all auxillaries with a syzygy. Division series alternating with arms. Cirri many in one specimen inferred from fresh several scars of cirri and only 2 are intact with 14 segments, cirri 14 arranged around the centrodorsal in the other, dorsal side of segments convex, distal segments with a slight transverse thickening.

Distribution: Lakshadweep, Andamans and Nicobars. Elsewhere: Bay of Bengal, East Indies and South China Sea. The species is newly recoded from Lakshadweep.

Figures

Figure 1. Map showing the study sites.