Australian Museum Journal On a new asteroid from Queensland
- Shortform:
- Livingstone, 1931, Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(4): 135–137
- Author(s):
- Livingstone, Arthur A.
- Year published:
- 1931
- Title:
- On a new asteroid from Queensland
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 4
- Start page:
- 135
- End page:
- 137
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.18.1931.721
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xvii–xix
- Date published:
- 21 June 1931
- Cover date:
- 21 June 1931
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 05 February 2009
- Available online:
- 05 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 721
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (141kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1311kb PDF)
Abstract
[Excerpt from p. 136.] Itis not without hesitation that a new name has been considered necessary to accommodate the series of five specimens before me. The close relationship to G. pleyadella is obvious and it was first considered likely that the five specimens were but variations of that species. The smallest specimen approaches very closely to pleyadella in the shape of one ray (see plate) but the remaining rays are normal and characteristic of the other four specimens. In order to make an attempt to settle the question definitely, a loan of one of Bell's original specimens of P. validus, which was sunk as a synonym of pleyadella by Dr. H. L. Clark in 1909, was granted me by the authorities of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.