Freyellaster scalaris

Freyellaster scalaris

Freyellaster scalaris

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: Brisingidae
Genus: Freyellaster
Subgenus: Freyellaster (Freyellaster)
Species: Freyellaster (Freyellaster) scalaris

Name

Freyellaster scalaris (A.H. Clark, 1916)

• original combination: Freyella scalaris A.H. Clark, 1916
• Type locality: Albatross R/V Station 2807. Galapagos Islands, NW of San Cristobal Island. 0.4°S 89.1°W / -0.4; -89.1. Depth 1485.
• Syntype: USNM 36950 [1]; USNM 39899 [2].

Synonymy

• Freyella scalaris A.H. Clark, 1916: 115–116.
• Freyellaster scalaris (A.H. Clark, 1916) Fisher, 1918: 104.
• Freyellaster (Freyellaster) scalaris (A.H. Clark, 1916); — Zhang in Zhang et al., 2023: 17.

References

• Clark, A.H. 1916. One new starfish and five new brittle stars from the Galapagos Islands. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8 (18): 115-122. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1918. Notes on Asteroidea. II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology serie 9. 2(7): 103–111. 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.