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Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand

Family Goniasteridae — Pentogonaster Gray, 1840 — Pentagonaster pulchellus Gray, 1840

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Family Goniasteridae
Pentogonaster Gray, 1840

Pentagonaster pulchellus Gray, 1840

  • Alert station 20, three specimens; and station 23, one young specimen.
  • Off east coast of Canterbury and Otago, between Taiaroa and Timaru, 40 fathoms, January and November, 1951; P. M. Ralph; seven specimens.

Bright orange-red in life, the large marginals coloured in the same way as the rest of the upper surface, paler below. In young individuals, the penultimate marginals are not yet enlarged; in the case of one of the east coast specimens, even at the stage having the major radius of 30 mm., the penultimate marginals are still not enlarged—an unusual circumstance which gives the specimen a very different appearance from normal.