Hippasteria mcknighti

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

Familia: Goniasteridae
Subfamilia: Hippasterinae
Genus: Hippasteria
Species: Hippasteria mcknighti

Name

Hippasteria mcknighti Mah et al., 2014

Type locality: Off New Zealand, 48.371000°S 175.285000°E / -48.371000; 175.285000 to 48.330000°S 175.292000°E / -48.330000; 175.292000, 907–1015 m. 12.x.2006.Coll. Scientific Observer Program. TRIP 2324/152.

Holotype: NIWA 66853.

Paratype: NIWA 44152.

Etymology: named after Donald George McKnight.

Synonymy

• Hippasteria mcknighti Mah et al., 2014: 236–238, fig. 5A–F; — Mah, 2024a: 28, fig. 14a–e.

References

• Mah, C.L. 2024a. New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 1–35. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.01 . Reference page. 
• 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.