Araeosoma cucullatum

Araeosoma cucullatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Echinothurioida

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Echinoidea Subclassis: Euechinoidea Superordo: Diadematacea Ordo: Echinothurioida

Familia: Echinothuriidae
Subfamilia: Echinothuriinae
Genus: Araeosoma
Species: Araeosoma cucullatum

Name

Araeosoma cucullatum Zheng et al., 2022

• Type locality: Kocebu Guyot, 1314m.

• Holotype: MBM286942, Kocebu Guyot, station FX-Dive 175 (17°20′ N, 153°12′ E), depth 1,314 m, April 9, 2018.

• Paratypes: MBM286963, M4 seamount, station FX-Dive 132 (10°23′ N, 140°09′ E), depth 1,368 m, August 14, 2017. MBM286971, M7, station FX-Dive 223 (10°04′ N, 140°15′ E), depth 1,363 m, June 11, 2019. MBM286975, M5 seamount, station FX-Dive 214 (10°05′ N, 140°10′ E), depth 1,497 m, June 1, 2019.

• Etymology: Named cucullatum, from the Latin word cucullatus (spoon-shaped), after the spoon-shaped valves of large tridentate pedicellariae.

References

• Zheng, W., Sun, S., Sha, Z.-L., Xiao, N. 2022. Three new species and two new records of Echinothuriidae (Echinodermata: Echinothurioida) from seamounts in the Northwest Pacific Ocean: Diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea echinothuriids. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9: 1036914. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1036914 Reference page.