Chaetaster Muller & Troschel 1842
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- 1. School of the Environment, Geography and Geological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO 13 QL U. K. & Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 75 BD U. K.
Description
Genus Chaetaster Müller & Troschel, 1842
Diagnosis. Delicately constructed 5-rayed asteroids with long, narrow arms, small discs; marginal, abactinal and actinal ossicles of nearly equal size and shape, with raised, flat-topped central region bearing a dense cluster of short, hyaline spines; proximal arm constructed of 13 extraxial plate rows (1 radial, 4 adradial, paired supero- and inferomarginals, 4 actinals), decreasing distally to 5 close to arm tip (1 radial, paired supero- and inferomarginals).
Type species. Asterias longipes Bruzelius, 1805
Remarks. Chaetaster includes a small group of living species (Mah, 2020), including, in addition to the type species (eastern central Atlantic), C. nodosus Perrier, 1875 (central western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico), C. moorei Bell, 1894 (South China Sea), and C. vestitus Koehler, 1910 (Indian Ocean).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.11 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4411478 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFAECE435272FFDBFF84FFBB6517FF88 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/93DB37F6-2564-4E3A-AA25-4A842994BE68 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0397B63B5273FFDAFF13FE9D66E7FD0D (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaetasteridae
- Genus
- Chaetaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Troschel
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chaetaster Muller, 1842 sec. Gale, 2020
References
- Muller, J. & Troschel, F. H. (1842) System der Asteriden. Papier, Druck und Verlag, von Friedrich Vieweg und sohn. Braunschweig, XX + 134 pp., 12 pls.
- Bruzelius, N. (1805) Dissertatio sistens species cognitas asteriarum, quamr. sub praesidio A. J. Retzius exhibet N. Bruzelius. Berlingianis, Lundae, 37 pp.
- Perrier, E. (1875) Revision de la collection de stellerides du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Reinwald, Paris, 384 pp.
- Bell, F. J. (1894) On the Echinoderms collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Penguin and by H. M. S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1894, 392 - 413.
- Koehler, R. (1910) An account of the shallow-water Asteroidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Part 6. Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 192 pp.