Ferdina mena
| Ferdina mena | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Valvatida |
| Family: | Goniasteridae |
| Genus: | Ferdina |
| Species: | F. mena
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| Binomial name | |
| Ferdina mena Mah, 2017
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Ferdina mena, the false button star or red armpits sea star, is a species from the genus Ferdina.[1]
Characteristics
This species displays large rounded dorsal plates, white in the center and yellowing toward the tips of the arms, on a rust-colored background. It is particularly recognizable by the fact that the two plates located at each armpit are bright red[2].
Distribution
This species appears to be endemic to the western Indian Ocean, where it is found from South Africa to Madagascar, including the Comoros and Mozambique[2].
It is replaced in the Mascarene Islands by Ferdina flavescens (single-colored), and south of Durban by Ferdina sadhaensis (with white plates on a red background)[2].
Taxonomy
The species' description is the result of a re-evaluation of Ophidiasteridae that led to the discovery of new genera and species supported by a distinctive set of characteristics that support a new subfamily, the Ferdininae, a group originally outlined by Marsh and Price (1991) within the Goniasteridae.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b CHRISTOPHER L. MAH (25 May 2017). "Overview of the Ferdina-like Goniasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) including a new subfamily, three new genera and fourteen new species". Zootaxa. 4271 (1): 1–72. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4271.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28610308. Wikidata Q36404137.
- ^ a b c Ducarme, Frédéric (2023). Étoiles de mer, oursins et autres échinodermes de Mayotte et sa région (in French). Les Naturalistes de Mayotte. ISBN 978-2-9521543-5-2.
- ^ Loisette M. Marsh; Andrew R.G. Price (30 May 1991). "Indian Ocean echinoderms collected during the Sindbad Voyage (1980-81): 2. Asteroidea". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology. 57 (1): 61–70. ISSN 0007-1498. Wikidata Q126453689.