Cnemidaster, SLADEN, 1889

Mah, Christopher, 2007, Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1), pp. 177-210 : 190

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00291.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5489314

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F187FA-FFBB-FFFF-851F-8C41690FFC94

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scientific name

Cnemidaster
status

 

CNEMIDASTER SLADEN, 1889 View in CoL

Cnemidaster Sladen, 1889: 423 View in CoL ; Fisher, 1919a: 389; 1919b: 471, 480, 481, 485; Hayashi, 1943: 174; Spencer & Wright, 1966: U74; Clark & Mah, 2001: 230.

Mammaster Perrier, 1894: 114 View in CoL (in key); Fisher, 1919a: 389; 1919b: 471, 481; Spencer & Wright, 1966: U75; Downey, 1970: 12; Clark & Downey, 1992: 403; Clark & Mah, 2001: 231.

Type species: Cnemidaster wyvilli Sladen, 1889 .

Diagnosis: Disc plates enlarged, swollen, rounded. Disc thick, discontinuous with arms in smaller specimens (below R = 7.0). Disc and arm plates imbricate. Disc and arm surface largely bare, covered with membranous skin. Internal buttress present.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Forcipulatida

Family

Zoroasteridae

Loc

Cnemidaster

Mah, Christopher 2007
2007
Loc

Mammaster

Clark AM & Mah C 2001: 231
Clark AM & Downey ME 1992: 403
Downey ME 1970: 12
Fisher WK 1919: 389
Fisher WK 1919: 471
Perrier E 1894: 114
1894
Loc

Cnemidaster

Clark AM & Mah C 2001: 230
Hayashi R 1943: 174
Fisher WK 1919: 389
Fisher WK 1919: 471
Sladen WP 1889: 423
1889
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