Plutonaster bifrons

Plutonaster bifrons

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paxillosida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Paxillosida

Familia: Astropectinidae
Genus: Plutonaster
Species: Plutonaster bifrons

Name

Plutonaster bifrons (Wyville Thomson, 1873)

Original combination: Archaster bifrons Wyville Thomson, 1873

Syntypes: BMNH 1947.6.20.1 [1]; BMNH 1898.5.3.1054 [2].

Synonymy

• Archaster bifrons Wyville Thomson, 1873: 122–123, fig. 17, 74.
• Goniopecten bifrons (Wyville Thomson, 1873) Perrier, 1885: 71.
• Plutonaster bifrons (Wyville Thomson, 1873) Sladen, 1889: 84–88, pl. 11 figs. 1–4, pl. 13 figs. 9–10; — Mortensen, 1927: 63–64, fig. 36; — H.L. Clark, 1941: 18–19; — Cherbonnier & Sibuet, 1972: 1344; — Sibuet, 1975: 101; — Hurtado-García & Manjón-Cabeza, 2022: 1216, figs. 2d–g.
• Plutonaster proteus H.L. Clark, 1923: 242–246, pl. 13 figs. 3–7.
  • Type locality: South Africa, Cape Point. Depth 800–900 fms
  • Holotype: SAM A6427.
  • Paratypes: MCZ AST-2631 [3]; MCZ AST-2563 [4]; MCZ AST-2564 [5].
  • Synonymised by Sibuet (1975: 101).

References

• Cherbonnier, G. & Sibuet, M. 1972. Résultats scientifiques de la campagne Noratlante : Astérides et Ophiurides. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 3ème série - Zoologie. 102(76): 1333–1394. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1923a. The Echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 13(7): 221–435, pls VIII–XXIII. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1941. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Echinoderms (other than holothurians). Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural. 15(1): 1-154, 10 plates. Reference page. 
• Hurtado-García, J., Manjón-Cabeza, M.A. 2022. Species composition of sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Patagonian Argentinian deep sea, including seven new records: connectivity with sub-Antarctic and Antarctic fauna. Polar Biology. 45: 1211–1228. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-022-03056-x Reference page. 
• Mortensen, O.T.J. 1927. Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press: London. IX, 471 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Perrier, E. 1885b. Première note préliminaire sur les Échinodermes recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marins du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. Serie 6. 19(8): 1-72. BHL Reference page. 
• Sibuet, M. 1975. Astérides abyssales de l'Atlantique sud. (Résultats de la campagne Walda, juin-juillet-août 1971). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 3ème série - Zoologie. 199: 281–296. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page. 
• Thomson, C.W. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. Macmillan and Co.: London: 527 pp. BHL. Reference page.