Atheraster arandae (Mah, 2006)

Mah, Christopher L., 2023, New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83, pp. 1-35 : 5

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scientific name	Atheraster arandae
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Atheraster arandae View in CoL ( Mah 2006

Circeaster arandae Mah 2006: 934 View in CoL View Cited Treatment ; 2022: 26.

Diagnosis. Body stellate (R/r>4.0), disk small, arms narrow. Abactinal arm plates bare, transition between large arm plates and smaller disk plates abrupt. Marginal plates with prominent spine and abundance of smaller secondary spinelets, especially on ventrolateral edge. Furrow spines 12–15, distinct adambulacral pedicellariae, paddle-shaped. Adambulacral plate surface covered by 5–7 spinelets or rough-tipped granules.

Occurrence . Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa region, New Caledonia, Madagascar, 1600–2439 m.

References

Mah, C. L. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of the deep-sea goniasterid, Circeaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) including descriptions of six new species. Zoosystema 28 (4): 917 - 954.

Mah, C. L. 2022. New genera, species and occurrence of deep-sea Asteroidea (Valvatacea, Forcipulatacea, Echinodermata) collected from the tropical Pacific Ocean by the CAPSTONE Expedition. Zootaxa 5164 (1): 1 - 75. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5164.1.1