Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad ISSN: 1870-3453
[email protected] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México Hendrickx, Michel E.; Mah, Christopher; Zárate-Montes, Carlo Magno Deep-water Asteroidea (Echinodermata) collected during the TALUD cruises in the Gulf of California, Mexico Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol. 82, núm. 3, septiembre, 2011, pp. 798-824 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Distrito Federal, México Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42520988008 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82: 798-824, 2011 Deep-water Asteroidea (Echinodermata) collected during the TALUD cruises in the Gulf of California, Mexico Asteroidea (Echinodermata) de aguas profundas recolectados durante cruceros TALUD en el golfo de California, México Michel E. Hendrickx1*, Christopher Mah2 and Carlo Magno Zárate-Montes1,3 1Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 811, 82000 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México. 2Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. 3Posgraduate Program, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Apartado postal 70-305, 04510 México, D.F., México. *Correspondent:
[email protected] Abstract. During a series of cruises aboard the R/V “El Puma” aimed at collecting the deep-water benthic and pelagic fauna off the Pacific coast of Mexico, in the eastern Pacific, samples of Asteroidea were collected below 500 m depth (587-1 526 m).