Neomorphaster Sladen 1889

Mah, Christopher 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), pp. 461-508 : 462

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10910704
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scientific name	Neomorphaster Sladen 1889
status

Treatment

Neomorphaster Sladen 1889 View in CoL

Glyptaster Sladen View in CoL in Thomson & Murray, 1885: 612 (nomen nudem, no species named) (Non- Glyptaster Hall, 1852 View in CoL ). Neomorphaster Sladen 1889: 436 View in CoL ; Fisher 1923: 596; 1930: 211.

Calycaster Perrier 1891: 1226 View in CoL ; 1891: 258.

Gastraster Perrier 1894: 102 View in CoL ; Fisher 1918: 103; 1923: 250; 1930: 206; Mortensen 1927: 137.

Type: Neomorphaster eustichus Sladen 1889 , a synonym of Pedicellaster margaritaceus Perrier in Milne-Edwards 1882, by monotypy.

Diagnosis

Body strongly stellate (R/r=5.3) Disc small, arms elongate, gradually tapering, interradial arcs acute. Abactinal plates in regular longitudinal and transverse series with distinct carinal series, in addition to adradial plates, marginal plates and actinal series, 2 to 3 rows. Plates covered by granules or spinelets. Papulae present, 1 to 10 per papular region. Furrow spines diplacanthid.Adoral carina present, tube feet quadriserial. Pedicellariae crossed, small widely present on abactinal surface. Straight pedicellariae, present on alternate adambulacral plates. Modified from Clark & Downey (1992).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
Order	Forcipulatida
Family	Stichasteridae