Brisingaster helenae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brisingida
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: Brisingida

Familia: Brisingasteridae
Genus: Brisingaster
Species: Brisingaster helenae

Name

Brisingaster helenae (Rowe, 1989)

• original combination: Novodinia helenae Rowe, 1989
• Type locality: Off Norfolk Island. 29.336667°S 168.179833°E / -29.336667; 168.179833. Depth 309 m.
• Holotype: AM J21703.
• Etymology: named after Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Clark.

Synonymy

• Novodinia helenae Rowe, 1989: 274–277, figs. 10A–B, 11A–C; — Mah, 1999: 537–539 [in synonymy], fig. 3.
• Brisingaster helenae (Rowe, 1989) Zhang et al., 2023: 17.

References

• Mah, C.L. 1999. Taxonomy of the South Pacific brisingidan Brisingaster robillardi (Asteroidea) with new ontogenetic and phylogenetic information. Zoosystema. 21(3): 535–546. Online Reference page. 
• Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine New Deep-water Species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a Checklist of the Echinoderm Fauna. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 111: 257–292. BHL. Reference page. 
• Zhang, R.-Y., Fau, M., Mah, C.L., Eléaume, M., Zhang, D.-S., Zhou, Y.-D., Lu, B., Wang, C.-S. 2023. Systematics of deep-sea starfish order Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with a revised classification and assessments of morphological characters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 191: 1–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107993 . Reference page.