Hippasteria kurilensis, FISHER, 1911

Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2), pp. 266-301 : 286

HIPPASTERIA KURILENSIS FISHER, 1911

Fisher, 1911: 226 (as H. spinosa kurilensis ) Gish, 2007: 39 (as H. kurilensis )

Occurrence: Okhotsk Sea , off the southernmost point of Kamchatka and in the vicinity of Simushir Island (Kuriles), Petrel Bank, Aleutian Islands. 165–600 m.

Comments: This species was distinguished from others in the genus based on long, conical abactinal and marginal spines by Djakonov (1950). This was originally a subspecies designated by Fisher (1911) and later raised to a species by Djakonov (1950). This is also a likely synonym within the H. spinosa complex.

Material examined: None.