Ferdina mena

Ferdina mena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Valvatida
Family:	Goniasteridae
Genus:	Ferdina
Species:	F. mena
Binomial name
	Ferdina mena; Mah, 2017

Ferdina mena, the false button star or red armpits sea star, is a species from the genus Ferdina.

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.

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.

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).

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.

References

1 2 CHRISTOPHER L. MAH (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. PMID 28610308. Wikidata Q36404137. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for CHRISTOPHER L. MAH (help)
1 2 3 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.
↑ Marsh, Loisette Matilda; Andrew R. G. Price (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. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Andrew R. G. Price (help)

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[:0-1] 1 2 CHRISTOPHER L. MAH (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. PMID 28610308. Wikidata Q36404137. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for CHRISTOPHER L. MAH (help)

[Ducarme-2] 1 2 3 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.

[3] Marsh, Loisette Matilda; Andrew R. G. Price (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. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Andrew R. G. Price (help)