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A review of the genus Narcissia Gray, 1840 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Ophidiasteridae)

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Rosana Cunha*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Invertebrados Marinhos, Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia, Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo–SP. CEP: 04263–000, Brazil
Marcos Tavares
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Invertebrados Marinhos, Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia, Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo–SP. CEP: 04263–000, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Rosana Cunha, E-mail: rosana.fcunha@alumni.usp.br
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Abstract

Since the taxonomic revision of the Ophidiasteridae by H.L. Clark (1921), in which 20 genera were recognized as valid, several new genera and species were included in this family, and the boundaries between some of them became largely arbitrary. This also applies to Narcissia Gray, 1840, whose morphology and taxonomy are still very poorly understood today. The main goals of this research were: review the taxonomy of the genus Narcissia, from morphological studies; redescribe N. trigonaria Sladen, 1889 s. str.; characterize N. canariensis (d'Orbigny, 1839) and N. gracilis A.H. Clark, 1916, the two valid species most similar to N. trigonaria; review the validity of N. ahearnae Pawson, 2007 and N. trigonaria var. helenae Mortensen, 1933; review the validity of N. gracilis malpeloensis Downey, 1975. Altogether 370 specimens were analysed. All morphological structures of taxonomic importance have been illustrated, and, for the first time, the internal characters of this group were studied, from electron microscopy and microtomography. A new diagnosis for the genus Narcissia was constructed. Narcissia trigonaria was redescribed from a large specimen, from the type locality (Bahia, Brazil). Narcissia ahearnae is considered a valid species, and N. canariensis and N. trigonaria distinct entities. Narcissia trigonaria var. helenae is placed in the synonymy of N. trigonaria, and N. gracilis malpeloensis into the synonymy of N. gracilis. The dataset obtained in this work is by far the most complete acquired for the genus Narcissia.

Keywords

Asteroidsechinodermsmorphological variationsea starstaxonomic study
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Review
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 101 , Issue 6 , September 2021 , pp. 871 - 893
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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Present address: Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Marinha, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Dr Carvalho de Mendonça, 144, Encruzilhada, Santos–SP. CEP: 11070–100.

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