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Astrolirus patricki Zhang, Zhou, Xiao & Wang, 2020
Astrolirus patricki Zhang, Zhou, Xiao & Wang, 2020
Description Figure 2: Astrolirus patricki sp. nov., abactinal view.
(A) Paratype RSIOAS028. (B) Paratype RSIOAS003. (C), (D), (H), holotype RSIOAS044, (C) Abactinal surface of disk and proximal part of arms, with red arrow pointing at the madreporite body, white arrow at the interradial plate and yellow arrows at the marginal plates. The red frame indicates the proximal region of arm connecting the disk and genital region, where pedicellariae do no form regular costae. (D) Abactinal surface of arm genital area with mosaic plating, red arrows show the costae bands. (E) Paratype RSIOAS003, abactinal surface of arm genital area, red arrows show the costae bands. (F) Paratype RSIOAS052, zoom in view of the abactinal disk, showing the multiple sharp spinelets on disk plates. (G) Paratype RSIOAS052, a piece of dissected skin from abactinal disk, shot from the inner side of the skin, showing the small round disk plates. (H) Abactinal surface at the middle of arm, black arrows indicate the pedicellariae bands.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9071/fig-2

Link to publication: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=381086
  Author Zhang, R., Zhou, Y., Xiao, N., Wang, C., 2020 PNG file - 5.73 MB - 2 013 x 2 196 pixels added on 2021-03-15303 viewsAsteroidea taxa Astrolirus patricki Zhang, Zhou, Xiao & Wang, 2020checked Mah, Christopher 2021-03-16 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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