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species.
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Other included species.
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;
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;
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;
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;
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H.L.
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.
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<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FE88645CFF55FCA5" box="[130,231,791,813]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
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Small, stellate asterinids, up to
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=
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; rays predominantly 5; one species fissiparous (57 rays); interradial margin incurved, rays discrete, broad to narrow at base, short to long, rounded distally; flat actinally, convex abactinally, inferomarginal plates project to form acute ventrolateral margin; disc distinctly to irregularly defined; carinal series of plates present for most of ray, doubly papulate with 2 longitudinal series of large papulae for most of ray, each plate with rounded anterior projection; carinal plates imbricated by adcarinal plates on both sides, forming characteristic sunken series; other abactinal plates closely imbricate, not notched, arched over papular space more than indented proximally for papula; lacking secondary plates; papulae on rays single per papular space, large, in longitudinal series; spinelets glassy, thick to thin, conical or sacciform or subsacciform, pointed or splay-pointed, in clusters or single or double series across proximal plates, sometimes in round or oval bowl-shaped series on plate; lacking pedicellariae with differentiated valves; plates with prominent glassy convexities; superomarginal and inferomarginal plates in regular series; actinal interradial plates in predominantly oblique series; oral plates distinctively small, constricted distally (pair with form of short-handled, smooth-headed mace or club); oral spines up to 6, series incurved distally; suboral spines variably present, if present in continuous series with distal oral spines; lacking superambulacral and superactinal plates in
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species and two other investigated species
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.
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. Lord Howe I., NE
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, Sulawesi I., Sudanese Red Sea,
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, NW
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; rock and coral;
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0
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<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FE886130FF5FF919" box="[130,237,1659,1681]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">Etymology</emphasis>
. From
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with the Latin
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(star), in recognition of the substantial contribution by Ailsa Clark to seastar systematics (feminine).
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<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FE8861ABFF6BF97E" box="[130,217,1760,1782]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">Remarks</emphasis>
. Superambulacral and superactinal plates are absent from the
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species
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, and
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and
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. The remaining three species (which have not been dissected) have the other generic characters of
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, and it is anticipated that they too lack these internal plates.
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shares the lack of superambulacral and superactinal plates with seven other genera currently included in the
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:
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,
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,
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FAA56660FA9FFEC9" authorityName="O'Loughlin" authorityYear="2002" box="[1199,1325,299,321]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Meridiastra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">Meridiastra</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FB4B6660FCD4FED6" authorityName="Aziz &amp; Jangoux" authorityYear="1985" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Pseudasterina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">Pseudasterina</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FD726603FBB4FED6" authorityName="O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin &amp; Waters" authorityYear="2004" box="[888,1030,328,350]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Pseudopatiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">Pseudopatiria</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FA4F6603FB1BFED6" box="[1093,1193,328,350]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Tremaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FA4F6603FB1BFED6" box="[1093,1193,328,350]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">Tremaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="EF96BAD2470B2031FAE76603FC1CFEF2" author="O'Loughlin, P. M. &amp; Waters, J. M." pageId="1" pageNumber="182" pagination="1 - 40" refId="ref5971" refString="O'Loughlin, P. M., and Waters, J. M. 2004. A molecular and morphological revision of genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61 (1): 1 - 40." type="journal article" year="2004">OLoughlin and Waters, 2004</bibRefCitation>
). However, the form of the oral plates and arrangement of the carinal series of plates distinguish
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FB3F66C9FA3DFE10" authorityName="O'Loughlin &amp; Rowe" authorityYear="2005" box="[1333,1423,386,408]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Ailsastra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FB3F66C9FA3DFE10" box="[1333,1423,386,408]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">Ailsastra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, morphologically, from these and all other genera in the family. The morphological justification for recognising the new genus is supported by limited molecular data that places the
<specimenCount id="9D010CAA470B2031FB656693FC34FD83" count="2" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" type="generic">two specimens</specimenCount>
of the type-species
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FA4166BEFB03FD83" authorityName="O'Loughlin &amp; Rowe" authorityYear="2005" box="[1099,1201,501,523]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" genus="Ailsastra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="paulayi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9731B31470B2031FA4166BEFB03FD83" box="[1099,1201,501,523]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="182">A. paulayi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A240A64A470B2031FABD66BEFAB6FD83" box="[1207,1284,501,523]" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(see below) in a highly divergent but strongly monophyletic clade within a molecular phylogeny of
<taxonomicName id="4C07BCA0470B2031FA1E6564FB35FDCD" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1840" box="[1044,1159,559,581]" class="Asteroidea" family="Asterinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Valvatida" pageId="1" pageNumber="182" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="family">Asterinidae</taxonomicName>
(Jon Waters, pers. comm.; paper in preparation).
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