Hippasteria heathi

Hippasteria heathi, holotype dorsal view

Hippasteria heathi, holotype ventral view

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Hippasteria heathi Fisher, 1905

Type locality: USA, Alaska, Clarence Starits. "Albatross" station 4239. Depth 248 fms.
Holotype: USNM 22338

Fisher, W.K. 1905. New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 24: 293–320. BHL Reference page. [original description of Hippasteria heathi p. 309–310]
Mah, C.L., Neill K., Eléaume, M., Foltz, F.W. 2014. New species and global revision of Hippasteria (Hippasterinae: Goniasteridae; Asteroidea; Echinodermata). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 171(2): 422–456. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12131 Reference page. [as Hippasteria heathi p. 434]
Mah, C.L., Nizinski, M., Lundsten, L. 2010. Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160(2): 266–301. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00703.x Reference page. [as Hippasteria heathi p. 286]

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