Chichvarkhin Anton
National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
PeerJ. 2017 Jun 22;5:e3489. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3489. eCollection 2017.
Three species of the sea stars are reported from the waters of the northwestern Pacific. These species were referred by earlier authors as or . Two of them, and , were recently described from the Aleutian Islands. These species are reported for the first time from the western Pacific (southeastern Kamchatka shore, Commander Islands, and the northern Kurile Islands). The third species, sp. n. is herein described from the northern Sea of Japan. It is very likely that similar sea stars recorded in Yellow Sea and the southern Kurile Islands belong to sp. n. These three species are a part of a phylogenetic clade within the subgenus , which also includes and several undescribed species occurring in the northeastern Pacific.
据报道，西北太平洋海域有三种海星。早期作者将这些物种称为 或 。其中两种， 和 ，最近在阿留申群岛被描述。这些物种首次在西太平洋（堪察加半岛东南部海岸、科曼多尔群岛和千岛群岛北部）被报道。第三种物种，新物种 在此从日本海北部被描述。很有可能在黄海和千岛群岛南部记录到的类似海星属于新物种 。这三个物种是 亚属内一个系统发育分支的一部分，该分支还包括 在东北太平洋出现的 和几个未描述的物种。
