Asterodiscides sp. indet.

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Asterodiscides sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Asterodiscides sp.; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida; family: Asterodiscididae; genus: Asterodiscides; scientificNameAuthorship: A. M. Clark, 1974; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Alphonse N 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 128.3 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Christopher Mah , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Five short triangular arms and a wide central disc, ~ 10 cm across. Rough surface with small bumpy projections. Colouration is a light orange mottled in darker orange patches with a conspicuous seastar-shaped darker patch in the centre (Fig. 121).