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New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation

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Eight new species, including one new genus, Armaster chondros n. gen. sp., Atheraster luma n. sp., Atheraster phaeos n. sp., Atheraster umbo n. sp., Circeaster dux n. sp., Evoplosoma besseyae n. sp., Evoplosoma mystrion n. sp. and Evoplosoma pharos n. sp. are newly described from Australian waters. The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage(s) IN2017_V03 IN2018_V06 IN2022_V08 and IN2022_V09 with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc. If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.

Citation: Mah C.L. (2024) New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83: 1-35. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.01

Published: February 14, 2025 at 08:51

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nmv_goniasteridae

Contacts:

Christopher Mah
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

18
occurrence records
13
taxa
13
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 3
16.7%
maximumDepthInMeters 6
33.3%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1
5.6%

Measurement types

DNA derived data