Caymanostella Sea Star Records and Phylogenetic Analysis

Digitized treatments from the journal article 'New record of the wood-associated sea star Caymanostella, with notes on the phylogenetic position of the family Caymanostellidae (Asteroidea)' by Dilman, Minin, and Petrov, published in 2022. The dataset is based on the original article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 194, pages 14-35. It is hosted on the Plazi platform via Papers with Code.

Use Cases

• Phylogenetic analysis based on taxonomic descriptions and morphological data.
• Taxonomic classification of the Caymanostellidae family based on the published treatments.
• Comparative morphological studies of wood-associated sea stars.
• Metadata extraction for building biodiversity databases from digitized literature.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a peer-reviewed journal article published in 2022.
• Source article is published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, a known academic journal.
• Dataset is explicitly linked to a specific DOI (10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab060).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Plazi, based on the original journal article by Dilman, Anna B., Minin, Kirill V., Petrov, Nikolay B.

Collection Method

Digitization of taxonomic treatments from a published scientific article.