Astroceramus callimorphus Fisher 1906
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Astroceramus callimorphus Fisher 1906
Figure 2 A
Fisher, 1906: 1056; A.M. Clark 1993: 243 (checklist); Mah 1998: 67 (checklist); Kogure & Tachikawa 2009: 80, 81.
Feeding comments. One image (R-110-d2-007) shows Astroceramus callimorphus with its disk hunched over what are identified as caryophyllid corals (Fig. 2 A). The position of the animal indicates positioning of the stomach over the polyps of the coral, this is interpreted as feeding behavior by this species on the coral. The Atlantic Tessellaster notablis which possesses a broadly similar body form to Astroceramus, with triangular, elongate arms with abutting superomarginals over the arm radius, was recorded by H.L. Clark (1941) as having had the solitary coral Bathyactis symmetrica (now Fungiacyathus symmetricus) in its stomach suggesting convergent morphology.
Occurrence. Hawaiian Islands: Kona, Kahoolawe, East French Frigate Shoals. 233– 503 m.
Video observations. P5-281-010. Kona, Big Island. 19.63345, -156.0369333, 503 m.
R-110-d1-02229 & R-110-d2-007. Kahoolawe. 20.633, -156.7135 to 20.6341, -156.7073, 282–294 m; R-188- d1-02244. East French Frigate Shoals, NWHI, 23.8806, -165.8259, 297 m.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Astroceramus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Fisher
- Species
- callimorphus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Astroceramus callimorphus Fisher, 1906 sec. Mah, 2015
References
- Fisher, W. K. (1906) The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23, 987 - 1130.
- Mah, C. (1998) New Records, Taxonomic Notes and a Checklist of Hawaiian Starfish. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 55, 65 - 71
- Kogure, Y. & Tachikawa, H. (2009) A new species of the genus Astroceramus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Goniasteridae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Biogeography, 11, 77 - 82.