Bathybiaster loripes subsp. obesus Sladen 1889

liouvillei Koehler, 1912, Bathybiaster Bathybiaster liouvellei Koehler, 1912: 158; 1912a: 96, pl. 6, figs 2, 4, 12, pl. 8, figs 5, 6. Bathybiaster loripes obesus ‒ Clark 1989: 273. CURRENT STATUS. — Bathybiaster loripes obesus Sladen, 1889. TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • 2 syntypes; Pourquoi-Pas? expedition; 1908-1910, MNHN-IE-2014-180 • 2 syntypes; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-500 • 1 syntype, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-516. REMARK Koehler (1912a) reports twenty-one specimens from four localities in South Shetland: east of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 18 m); middle of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 420 m); west cove of Admiralty Bay (1 syntype, 75 m); dredging 18th (18 syntypes).
Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 295, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
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