Caymanostella laguardai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Velatida
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: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Velatida

Familia: Caymanostellidae
Genus: Caymanostella
Species: Caymanostella laguardai

Name

Caymanostella laguardai (Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021)

• Original combination: Crinitostella laguardai Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021

• ZooBank: F19DD701-5F8B-4313-B301-2279202EF0B8

• Type locality: North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, 19.269306°N 93.09414°W / 19.269306; -93.09414, depth 418 m.

• Holotype: ICML-UNAM 18415.

• Paratypes: BMNH 2021.1 [1]; BMNH 2021.2 [2]; ICML-UNAM 18416.

• Etymology: named after Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras.

Synonymy

• Crinitostella laguardai Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021: 593–595, figs. 1–2.
• Caymanostella laguardai (Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021) Shen et al., 2024: 384.

References

• Martín-Cao-Romero, C., Solís-Marín, F.A., Bribiesca-Contreras, G. 2021. Crinitostella laguardai, new genus and species of wood-dwelling deep-sea sea-star (Asteroidea: Caymanostellidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 101(3): 591–597. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315421000448 . Reference page. 
• Shen, Z., Mongiardino Koch, N., Seid, C., Tilic, E., Rouse, G.W. 2024. Three New Species of Deep-Sea Wood-Associated Sea Stars (Asteroidea: Caymanostellidae) from the Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa 5536(3): 351–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.1 . Reference page. 

Links

• Caymanostella laguardai (Martin-Cao-Romero, Solis-Marin & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021) in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on August 24, 2025