Three New Species of Deep-Sea Wood-Associated Sea Stars (Asteroidea: Caymanostellidae) from the Eastern Pacific Author Shen, Zihui Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 - 0202, USA Author Koch, Nicolás Mongiardino Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 - 0202, USA Author Seid, Charlotte A. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 - 0202, USA Author Tilic, Ekin Department of Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany Author Rouse, Greg W. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 - 0202, USA text Zootaxa 2024 2024-11-05 5536 3 351 388 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.1 journal article 305701 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.1 b99eb049-3dcd-4087-a311-9d2674047b91 1175-5326 14239072 9DD87EAB-1620-4A04-869F-C717538E24E0

TABLE 5. Variations of characters across ontogeny in Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa sp. nov.

Morphological characters	Juvenile SIO-BIC E7228	Juvenile SIO-BIC E7075B	Subadult SIO-BIC SMF 6939	Large adult SIO-BIC E11441, holotype
R; r; R/r	R = 0.96 mm; r = 0.85 mm; R/r = 1.13	R = 1.85 mm; r = 1.53 mm; R/r = 1.21	R = 4.2 mm; r = 3.45 mm; R/r = 1.22	R = 5.85 mm, r = 4.15 mm, R/r = 1.41
Number of central disc plates	Central disc plates not discernable	9	~20	26
Central disc plate shapes and patterns	Not discernable	Irregularly oval with curved edges, with a single imbricating circle	Oval shaped or with curved edges, and imbricate in irregular circles	Irregularly oval with curved edges, and imbricate in irregular circles
Maximum number of abactinal spinelets on a central disc plate	Central disc plates not discernable	5	N/A, 7 in E11221A (R=2.88 mm)	12
Length of typical abactinal spinelets (mm)	~0.076	0.126	N/A, 0.136 in E11221A (R=2.88 mm)	0.150
Madreporite shape	Not visible	Single pore	Single slit	Branched grooves
Gonopore position	Not visible	Not visible	Visible, located at the gap between proximal edges of the first and second proximal-most superomarginal plates, notches not conspicuous	Visible, located in notches associated with the radial margin of the proximalmost superomarginal plates
Number of tube feet pairs per arm	5	7	12	12–14
Number of adambulacral plate pairs per arm	3	6	9	12