A new sea star of the genus Hippasteria (Asteroidea: Goniasteridae) from the Aleutian Islands
Author
Clark, Roger N.
Author
Jewett, Stephen C.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2963
48
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.278198
1081b889-544a-4454-b4f6-98d3bbcef5b0
1175-5326
278198
Genus
Hippasteria
Gray, 1840
Goniasteridae
with large, swollen disk, and broad, short rays. Abactinal plates roundish, with peripheral fringe of minute spinelets or granules, and bearing a single spine, tubercle or bivalve pedicellaria. Marginal plates large, quadrate to rounded fringed with spinelets or granules and bearing one to five large spines, tubercles, or large bivalve pedicellaria. Adambulacral plates with one to three furrow and one or two subadambulacral spines.