Brisinga Asbjørnsen 1856

Mah, Christopher L., 2022, New Genera, Species and Occurrences of Deep-Sea Asteroidea (Valvatacea, Forcipulatacea, Echinodermata) collected from the North Pacific Ocean by the CAPSTONE Expedition, Zootaxa 5164 (1), pp. 1-75 : 12

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Brisinga Asbjørnsen 1856
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Brisinga Asbjørnsen 1856

Asbjørnsen 1856: 95; Fisher 1919: 515, 1928: 7; Downey 1986: 4; Clark & Downey 1992: 463. (see Clark & Downey 1992 for full synonymy)

Diagnosis. Arms 7–14. Papulae absent. Abactinal disk plates with short spinelets. As with all Brisingidae , arm plates arranged in costae or ribs along arms, separated by thick skin. Adambulacral plates form adoral carina also referred to as “united interradially by syzygy.” Gonads serial.

Asbjornsen, P. C. (1856) Brisinga endecacnemos. In: Sars, G. O., Koren, J. & Danielssen, D. C., Fauna Littoralis Norvegiae, 2, pp. 101.

Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 794 pp.

Downey, M. E. (1986) Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 435, 1 - 57.

Fisher, W. K. (1919) Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3 (100), 1 - 547, 156 pls.

Fisher, W. K. (1928) Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters, Part 2: Forcipulata (Part). Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, 76, 1 - 245.