Deep-sea (> 1000 m) Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) from the North Pacific, including an overview of Sibogaster, Bathyceramaster n. gen. and three new species
Author
Mah, Christopher L.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4175
2
101
141
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.1
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1175-5326
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Hippasteria
Gray 1840
Gray 1840
: 279; 1866: 9;
Perrier 1875
: 271; (1876: 86);
Sladen 1889
: 341;
Fisher 1911
: 223;
Verrill 1914
: 300;
Koehler 1924
: 178;
Mortensen 1927
: 88;
Dons 1937
: 17; Fisher 1940: 125;
Djakonov 1950
: 51 (1968: 42);
Bernasconi 1964
: 253; Halpern 1970: 183;
A.M.Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976
: 63;
Clark and Downey 1992
: 246;
H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001
: 54;
Mah
et al.
2010
: 284. (as
Hippasteria
)
Dons 1937
: 17 [as
Hippasteria
(
Euhippasteria
)
]
Dons 1937
: 17 [as
Hippasteria (
Nehippasteria
)
}
Fisher 1905
: 311; 1911: 237;
Spencer & Wright 1966
: U58;
A.M. Clark 1993
: 251;
Mah
et al.
, 2010
: 276 (as
Cryptopeltaster
)
Codoceo & Andrade 1978
: 379 (as
Criptopeltaster
).
Comment.
Hippasteria
and related taxa have been the subject of recent revisionary work (
Mah
et al.
, 2010
; Mah
et al.
2014).
Cryptopeltaster
1905
was found to be a synonym of
Hippasteria
by Mah et al (2014). Most genera of hippasterines, especially
Evoplosoma
and
Hippasteria
have been observed to show some predation on cnidarians, mostly on octocorals (
Mah
et al.
2010
; Mah 2015), with some observations of feeding on sea anemones by
H. phrygiana
in the Atlantic (review in
Mah
et al.
2010
).