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Discovery Of Adults Linked To Cloning Oceanic Starfish Larvae (Oreaster, Asteroidea: Echinodermata), Daniel Janies, Yoalli Quetzalli Hernández-Díaz, Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín, Karen Lopez, Boyan Alexandrov, Madeline Galac, Joan Herrera, Janessa Cobb, Thomas A. Ebert, Isidro Bosch
Discovery Of Adults Linked To Cloning Oceanic Starfish Larvae (Oreaster, Asteroidea: Echinodermata), Daniel Janies, Yoalli Quetzalli Hernández-Díaz, Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín, Karen Lopez, Boyan Alexandrov, Madeline Galac, Joan Herrera, Janessa Cobb, Thomas A. Ebert, Isidro Bosch
Biology
Two juvenile specimens of a new species of Oreaster were collected at Parque Nacional Arrecife Alacranes and Triángulos Oeste in the southern Gulf of Mexico. DNA of mitochondrial loci identifies them as members of the same clade as cloning larvae of Oreaster found abundantly in waters of the Florida Current-Gulf Stream system, and distinct from Oreaster clavatus and Oreaster reticulatus, the two known Oreasteridae species in the North Atlantic. Larvae from the new species of Oreaster persist as clones but also metamorphose and settle to the benthos with typical asteroid morphology. © 2019 The University of Chicago.