Allostichaster Verrill, 1914

Allostichaster insignis (Farquhar, 1895)

• Alert stations: 23, fourteen specimens; 25, one specimen.

The widely-distributed, six-armed, fissiparous starfish of New Zealand. As it has already been recorded from Wellington, the Snares Islands, and Auckland Islands, its presence in the Fiords was to be expected. There, however, it was found only in Dusky Sound.