Specimen F 241922 Plutonaster hikurangi Clark & McKnight, 2000

• Taxon Name

  Plutonaster hikurangi

• Author and date of publication

  Clark & McKnight, 2000

• Preferred Common name

  Seastar

• Date Identified

  04/10/2017

• Identified By

  Dr Christopher Mah - Smithsonian Institution

• Number Of Specimens

  1

• Specimen Nature

  Nature: Whole, Form: wet, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

• Expedition Name

  IN2017_V03 - Sampling the Abyss

• Collected By

  O'Hara et. al IN2017 V03 abyss Marine Invertebrates Team

• Collection Event Code

  IN2017 V03 100

• Sampling Method

  Beam Trawl - CSIRO Four Metre

• Date Visited From

  9/06/2017 7:27 AM

• Date Visited To

  9/06/2017 8:47 AM

• Depth To (m)

  1013

• Depth From (m)

  999

• Category

  Natural Sciences

• Scientific Group

  Invertebrate Zoology

• Discipline

  Invertebrates

• Collecting Areas

  Invertebrates

• Type of Item

  Specimen

Taxonomy

• Phylum

  Echinodermata

• Subphylum

  Asterozoa

• Class

  Asteroidea

• Superorder

  Valvatacea

• Order

  Paxillosida

• Suborder

  Valvatacea

• Family

  Astropectinidae

• Genus

  Plutonaster

• Species Name

  hikurangi