Abstract

MORENO-JIMENEZ, Laura Cristina  and  BORRERO-PEREZ, Giomar Helena. Chaetaster nodosus Perrier, first starfish belonging to the family Chaetasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) registered for the Colombian Caribbean. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. [online]. 2020, vol.49, n.2, pp.173-178.  Epub Dec 20, 2020. ISSN 0122-9761.  https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2020.49.2.982.

This work reports for the first time for the Colombian Caribbean the monogeneric family Chaetasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) based on a specimen of the starfish Chaetaster nodosus Perrier, 1875 collected off the San Bernardo islands at 98 m depth. A brief description of the species and information about its distribution is included.

Keywords : first record; Colombia; geographic distribution; bathymetric distribution; taxonomic description.

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