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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
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Clarion-Clipperton Zone •
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; APEI 4;
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deep;
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;
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&amp;
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leg.;
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:
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(COI); NHMUK 2022.80; Voucher code: CCZ_157 •
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; APEI 4;
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,
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;
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deep;
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;
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&amp;
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leg.;
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:
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(COI); NHMUK 2022.79;
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code: CCZ_087
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.
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Pacific Ocean •
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,
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of
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deep; Challenger Expedition, Stn. 289; NHMUK 1890.5.7.1078. Atlantic Ocean •
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,
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of
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Sladen, 1889; between west coast of Africa and
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deep; Challenger Expedition, Stn. 346; NHMUK 1890.5.7.1077. •
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,
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; between
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and
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deep;
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, Stn. 89; NHMUK 1890.5.7.1076
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.
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Two specimens (R = 106 mm, r = 3 mm; R = 164 mm, r = 6 mm); live specimens whitish on both actinal and abactinal surfaces, tube feet transparent with bright orange flattened discs (Fig.
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). Disc is small, somewhat rounded, slightly orange on actinal and abactinal surfaces (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25E, F</figureCitation>
); with six long, slender arms (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25A-C</figureCitation>
); lacking furrow spines (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25D</figureCitation>
). Each abactinal plate on the genital area bears a single spinelet (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25E</figureCitation>
), covered with a membrane with pedicellariae. Each mouth plate has two oral spines covered by a clear membrane bearing pedicellariae (Fig.
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); one located on the adoral margin of the mouth plate and the suboral spine located above the centre of the mouth plate.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 25.</emphasis>
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(Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ_175:
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in situ image
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whole specimen
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ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ_087:
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
in situ image
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
details of dorsal disc
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A, B</emphasis>
); 1 cm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
); 2 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
); 1 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
); 0.5 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A, B</emphasis>
); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C-F</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
The COI sequences were very similar to sequences of
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(Sladen, 1889) collected in the UK-1 contract area from the CCZ (
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), and which were recovered in a single clade (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Rooted Bayesian phylogeny of Asteroidea. Concatenated (12 S, 16 S, 18 S, COI, and H 3) median consensus BEAST tree with posterior probability (PP) and bootstrap (BS) values indicated. Only values of PP&gt; 0.70 and BS&gt; 50 are shown, with values of PP&gt; 0.95 and BS&gt; 90 indicated with a circle. Nodes not recovered on the RAxML tree are indicated with a hyphen. Sequences generated in this study are highlighted in violet." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716350" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">24</figureCitation>
). Only arm segments were recovered from the UK-1 specimens, and although they were found to resemble
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. benthophila" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="benthophila">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the whole specimens collected in the western CCZ differ from the original description for the species. Only five species are known for having six rays:
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. sexradiata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sexradiata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. sexradiata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Perrier, 1885),
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. tuberculata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="tuberculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. tuberculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Sladen, 1889),
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. basketa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="basketa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. basketa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" author="Zhang, R" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B106" refString="Zhang, R, Wang, C, Zhou, Y, Zhang, H, 2019. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" title="Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e 103163." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" year="2019">Zhang et al., 2019</bibRefCitation>
, and
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. delicata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="delicata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. delicata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" author="Zhang, R" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B106" refString="Zhang, R, Wang, C, Zhou, Y, Zhang, H, 2019. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" title="Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e 103163." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" year="2019">Zhang et al., 2019</bibRefCitation>
. However,
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. benthophila" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="benthophila">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is easily distinguished from the other two species by its abactinal armament; each abactinal plate bearing two or three spinelets covered with a simple membrane with no pedicellariae (
<bibRefCitation author="Sladen, WP" journalOrPublisher="Zoology (Jena, Germany)" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 893" refId="B89" refString="Sladen, WP, 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Zoology (Jena, Germany) 30: 1 - 893" title="Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876." volume="30" year="1889">Sladen 1889</bibRefCitation>
). The specimens from the CCZ have abactinal spinelets covered by a membrane that bears pedicellariae (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25E</figureCitation>
). They also differ from
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. benthophila" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="benthophila">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having the spines on the adoral margin of the mouth-plates covered by a clear membrane bearing pedicellariae instead of an opaque membrane with no pedicellariae (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" author="Downey, ME" journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 57" refId="B23" refString="Downey, ME, 1986. Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 435 (435): 1 - 57, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" title="Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family." url="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" volume="435" year="1986">Downey 1986</bibRefCitation>
). In addition, the suboral spines are located above the centre of the mouth plate (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Freyastera cf. tuberculata (Sladen, 1889). Specimen CCZ _ 175: A in situ image C whole specimen D ventral surface of the arms before preservation. Specimen CCZ _ 087: B in situ image E details of dorsal disc F ventral disc surface before preservation. Scale bars: 2 cm (A, B); 1 cm (C); 2 mm (D); 1 mm (E); 0.5 mm (F). Image attribution: Durden and Smith (A, B); Wiklund, Durden, Drennan, and McQuaid (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716351" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">25F</figureCitation>
), as in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. tuberculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and not below the centre of the mouth plate as described for
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. benthophila" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="benthophila">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). Syntypes from
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. tuberculata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="tuberculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. tuberculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are from the Atlantic Ocean (
<bibRefCitation author="Sladen, WP" journalOrPublisher="Zoology (Jena, Germany)" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 893" refId="B89" refString="Sladen, WP, 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Zoology (Jena, Germany) 30: 1 - 893" title="Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876." volume="30" year="1889">Sladen 1889</bibRefCitation>
), but it has been reported for the Eastern Tropical Pacific (
<geoCoordinate degrees="0.05" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="0.05">0.05°N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="117.25" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="-117.25">117.25°W</geoCoordinate>
) at 4243 m depth (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" author="Downey, ME" journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 57" refId="B23" refString="Downey, ME, 1986. Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 435 (435): 1 - 57, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" title="Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family." url="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.435" volume="435" year="1986">Downey 1986</bibRefCitation>
). Unfortunately, there are no genetic sequences available for this species, but COI sequences from CCZ specimens are highly divergent from the sequence of
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. benthophila" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="benthophila">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. benthophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
collected in the Mariana Trench (K2P distance: 13-14%). In the phylogenetic tree they are also recovered in different clades, very close to another species reported herein, and to
<taxonomicName genus="F." lsidName="F. delicata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="delicata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. delicata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Crinoidea" family="Freyellidae" genus="Freyastera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Freyastera" order="Forcipulatida" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Freyastera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. Yap (in
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" author="Zhang, R" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B106" refString="Zhang, R, Wang, C, Zhou, Y, Zhang, H, 2019. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" title="Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species in genus Freyastera (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Freyellidae), with a revised key to close species and ecological remarks. Deep-sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers 154: e 103163." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103163" year="2019">Zhang et al. 2019</bibRefCitation>
) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Rooted Bayesian phylogeny of Asteroidea. Concatenated (12 S, 16 S, 18 S, COI, and H 3) median consensus BEAST tree with posterior probability (PP) and bootstrap (BS) values indicated. Only values of PP&gt; 0.70 and BS&gt; 50 are shown, with values of PP&gt; 0.95 and BS&gt; 90 indicated with a circle. Nodes not recovered on the RAxML tree are indicated with a hyphen. Sequences generated in this study are highlighted in violet." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/716350" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">24</figureCitation>
). The specimen collected here represents the same species as found in the eastern CCZ,
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(
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7251" author="Glover, AG" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Marine Science and Engineering" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B33" refString="Glover, AG, Wiklund, H, Rabone, M, Amon, DJ, Smith, CR, O'Hara, T, Mah, CL, Dahlgren, TG, 2016b. Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7251. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7251" title="Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e 7251." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7251" year="2016 b">Glover et al. 2016b</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="ecology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">One specimen was observed on the sedimented seafloor (CCZ_157), while another was sitting on a nodule with the actinal surface against the muddy seafloor and lifting the tip of the arms like a basket (CCZ_087). Both seastars were collected on abyssal sediments of APEI 4 at 5000 m depth. During morphological examination of these samples, the exoskeleton of a large (&gt; 6 mm long), digested copepod was found in the stomach of specimen CCZ_157.</paragraph>
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