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(one ray abnormal; one ray cut off mid-ray and cleared).
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(1).
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Figure 1. Montage photograph of the holotype of
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC8FF9BD1636F003408A661" box="[581,785,1830,1849]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="31">Aquilonastra alisonae</emphasis>
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(WAM Z26200). Abactinal view showing six subequal rays (one abnormal), abactinal plates irregular in form and arrangement, plates on upper rays singly papulate in predominantly four longitudinal series per ray. Single madreporite highlighted. Insert (upper right) with splay-pointed abactinal spinelets from the lower ray and margin.
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Figure 2. Montage photograph of the holotype of
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC9FF9AD17F6F67343CA60C" box="[601,805,1857,1876]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="32">Aquilonastra alisonae</emphasis>
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(WAM Z26200). Actinal view showing six rays and spination and actinal plates in slightly irregular longitudinal and oblique series.
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Figure 3. Montage photographs of the holotype of
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFCAFF99D17F6CE5343AA58E" box="[601,803,1219,1238]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="33">Aquilonastra alisonae</emphasis>
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(WAM Z26200). a, abactinal proximal view of a ray showing irregular plate forms and arrangement and predominantly splay-pointed spinelets; b, abactinal view of a distal cleared ray showing glassy convexities on plates, proximal concave indentation on some plates for a papula, and a secondary plate highlighted; c, actinal view of the oral region and proximal ray; d, view of internal skeletal structure of a cleared ray with a superactinal plate (left) and a superambulacral plate (right) highlighted.
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Figure 4. Montage photograph of a paratype of
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFCBFF98D1636F00340BA661" box="[581,786,1830,1849]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="34">Aquilonastra alisonae</emphasis>
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(WAM Z26199). Actinal view showing six rays and spine forms and numbers that are similar to those of the holotype. Two oral plates highlighted, with 6 oral spines each, and four distal suboral spines each (proximal two large and distal two small).
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. Asterinid seastar, six rays, variably slightly unequal, rays wide basally, tapered to rounded end distally, up to R =
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fissiparous. Disc not discretely demarcated. No abactinal or actinal gonopores detected. Pedicellariae not detected. Glassy convexities on cleared abactinal and actinal plates. Superomarginal and inferomarginal plates subequal; inferomarginal plates not projecting noticeably. Internal superambulacral and superactinal plates present.
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<paragraph id="C9363698FFC4FF97D3946A64341AA2C0" blockId="8.[138,772,229,1124]" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Abactinal surface: disc plates imbricate irregularly with those of rays; upper ray plates irregular in form, not in regular series, no carinal series of plates; most upper ray plates widely concave proximally to create papular space; single papula per papular space; rare secondary plates; 4 prominent longitudinal series of papulae across rays, short lower series of smaller papulae along rays, up to 11 papulae per series along upper ray, series along upper part of ray irregular; up to about 10 predominantly splay-pointed spinelets per abactinal plate, frequently in 2 transverse series across proximal edge and middle of plate; superomarginal plates with up to 8 splay-pointed spinelets per plate in 2 series of 5 distal and 3 proximal.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C9363698FFC4FF97D3966BB935DFA53C" blockId="8.[138,772,229,1124]" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Actinal surface spines per plate: oral 6, long, thin, slightly cylindrical to spatulate; sub-oral 43; furrow 5, digitiform; subambulacral 4, digitiform to splay-pointed; actinal up to 7 on central plates, conical to splay-pointed; inferomarginal up to about 9, predominantly splay-pointed, frequently with 6 abactinal inferomarginal, 3 actinal inferomarginal. Actinal inter-radial plates in slightly irregular longitudinal and oblique series.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC4FF97D3AA6C5C3613A5D7" box="[140,266,1146,1167]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Distribution</emphasis>
. North
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, Kimberley Region, Long Reef, rock substrate,
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0
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.
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<paragraph id="C9363698FFC4FF97D3AA6CE53572A5AE" blockId="8.[140,771,1219,1270]" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">
<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC4FF97D3AA6CE537E0A580" box="[140,249,1219,1240]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Etymology</emphasis>
. Named for Alison Sampey, formerly of WAM, who initially collected and curated these specimens.
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC4FF97D3AA6D2B37FBA47A" box="[140,226,1293,1314]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Remarks</emphasis>
. The slightly irregular length of the six rays and irregular plate arrangement on disc and upper rays prompted us to think initially that this species is fissiparous. But the presence of only one conspicuous madreporite, and only slight ray length differences lead us to judge that the species is not fissiparous, at least for the size of the
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specimens.
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<emphasis id="FBFDEA8AFFC4FF97D1016DB83419A4EB" box="[551,768,1438,1459]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="35">Aquilonastra alisonae</emphasis>
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is distinguished diagnostically from other
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species
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in the key. It differs in particular from other species of
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from the Kimberley region by having a combination of: six rays; predominantly splay-pointed abactinal spinelets; singlemadreporite;non-fissiparoushabit;absenceofpedicellariae. We did not observe gonopores, but they were clearly not present actinally and assume that they would be abactinal if present.
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