Asterodiscides A.M. Clark, 1974

Mah, Christopher L., 2021, The East Pacific / South Pacific Boundary: New taxa and occurrences from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Caledonia and adjacent regions, Zootaxa 4980 (3), pp. 401-450 : 408

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scientific name	Asterodiscides A.M. Clark, 1974
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Asterodiscides A.M. Clark, 1974 View in CoL

(nom. nov. for Asterodiscus Gray, 1847 , preoccupied)

A.M. Clark 1974: 435; Rowe 1977: 192; 1985: 532; H.E.S. Clark & McKnight 2001: 141.

Comments. Asterodiscides contains 18 species ( Mah 2018b) occurring throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans at moderately deep depths, between 10 and 800 m, but most between 20 and 150. Rowe (1977, 1986) and Lane and Rowe (2009) have produced much of the primary work for Asterodiscides .