Astrosarkus idipi Mah, 2003

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e120128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13801181

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scientific name

Astrosarkus idipi Mah, 2003
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Astrosarkus idipi Mah, 2003 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Astrosarkus idipi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Valvatida ; family: Oreasteridae ; genus: Astrosarkus ; scientificNameAuthorship: Mah, 2003; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Addu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 83; maximumDepthInMeters: 91; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Christopher Mah; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Body heavily inflated with large central disc and short arms. Arms with rounded margins and more pointy at the tips. Approximately 32 cm in the longest dimension. Colouration in red tones and peach with patchy pattern throughout the surface. This is a colour variant of the species described in more detail in Mah 2023 (Fig. 253).